Chapter Thirty
Saturday, 10th
Caroline woke early, even before Joe’s internal golf alarm had gone off. She crept downstairs and made coffee. When Joe found her sometime later she was curled up in the same spot on the sofa she’d occupied last night. She looked up.
“Are we OK?” she asked, needing to hear the words again. She was afraid he might feel differently now, in the cold light of day.
“Yes. We’re OK, I promise.” He smiled and bent down to gently kiss her lips. “I did have one thought.”
He saw fear in her face and hurriedly continued, “No, nothing bad. I wondered if you should talk to your boss. Ben tried to set you up over those designs and the company could easily have suffered as a result. That’s serious stuff.”
Caroline considered this for a moment. “I don’t think I can. The
