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Sam Gable lay peacefully in the arms of her new boyfriend, Detective Sergeant Ian Gilligan, who had been instrumental in helping her and D.C. Ginger Devenish in the course of their investigation in Failsworth. The widower and Sam had felt a mutual attraction and tonight that attraction had led Gilligan to drive from his home in Oldham to Liverpool in order to cement their romantic alliance.
He'd treated Sam to a romantic dinner at her favourite Italian restaurant, Casa Italia on Stanley Street in Liverpool, where they'd spent most of the evening staring into one another's eyes while engaged in a conversation that saw them both falling for each other even more than they had so far. Sam had encouraged Ian to talk about his wife, who'd been killed by a drunk driver, a
