Chapter Thirty-Two
No, she didn’t offer to help Hugh, though she did notice when she went to put marmalade on her toast that he hadn’t put out her favourite one. Hugh gave her a wink as she looked up and she gave him a smile but inside she wavered, because it would be so easy to give in, to just fall a bit further into the man who spoke the same language without words. And then she felt mean. Hugh laughed when she got up and got out the very, very nice marmalade. ‘The things I do to further your career,’ Emily said, when Alex and Jennifer had gone and she put the lid on a nearly empty jar. ‘I’ll buy you a box of them,’ Hugh said. ‘You should have seen your face when they went for their fourth slices.’ ‘Scavengers,’ Emily said. ‘No wonder they were so hungry!’ It was all too nice and too easy to b
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