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He stood, took her hand and dragged her to the bedroom

“Don’t worry,” he told her “I’ll et back to work”

“Great,” she grumbled “That’s four little words every woman wants to hear on the way to the bedroom” She lowered her voice to mimic him “I’ll make it fast”

Lake laughed as Kirsty, ly, followed behind him

“Are you going to London to help your brother or not?” Alastair asked

He was sitting on the floor beside his bed They were eating vegetable curry because it was the only vegetarian meal that Alastair kne to cook Rainne didn’t mind, it tasted fine

“I don’t know,” she said “It wouldn’t be for long, anyway These things don’t last that long A few months tops”

“Months?” He put the half-finished food down on the floor beside him

The curry was eerily similar in appearance to the swirls on the yuck-brown carpet

“I thought it was only one protest,” he said

The bed behind hi for weeks and he hadn’t inning tohis ti a bit thin She had to figure out how to bring the topic up before she died of frustration

“Rainne?” he said, ain and not on that bloo bed

“These things take tianisation involved than you’d think”

“What I think,” Alastair said as he drew his knees up in front of him and leaned his ar and you should stay here and look after your shop”

Rainne found she had lost her appetite too She put her plate beside the one Alastair had abandoned