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Taylor didn’t hesitate before he answered, “Absolutely.”

They stepped out of the car hand in hand. Taylor steered her to the front of the car, tapping on the driver’s window, which immediately rolled down.

“Thanks, Luke.” He reached into his jacket, pulled some money out, and handed it through the window to the driver.

“No problems. Am I waiting for you?” Luke queried.

“No. We’re both getting out here,” Taylor declared and grinned down at Clara.

“Do you want me to collect you tomorrow morning?” Luke asked.

Taylor nodded. “Yeah. If you don’t mind, I’ll pop home and grab some clothes, then come back here.” He leaned down and whispered in Clara’s ear. “If we go to my house, my mom will declare it a party, and we’ll never get any privacy.”

“Great. I’ll see you tomorrow.” Luke nodded, rolled up his window and pulled away.

“You’re staying for a few days?” Clara raised an eyebrow.

“Yep,” he replied, squeezing her waist. “As long as that’s okay with you?”

“Absolutely. I’ve got dinner with Louisa and Damien booked for tomorrow. I’ll only be gone a few hours if you just want to hang out here.”

Taylor laughed. “Hmm, the funny thing is Mr Atrosky invited me to dinner tomorrow as well, but not the rest of the cast.”

Clara chuckled. “That man is incredibly observant. He knew we would be together.”

“He really is. And we really are together, finally.” Taylor slung his arm around her shoulder and drew her close to his side as they walked into the hotel.

EPILOGUE

“I’ve booked your flights. Have you managed to get the time off work?” Taylor asked Clara from where he was sprawled on her sofa. He had become a fixture in her house, there whenever he could be.

They had been together eight months and, despite hectic schedules, had managed not to go more than a few weeks without seeing each other. Clara would admit that Taylor’s solution of throwing money at the problem helped. If either of them had a couple of days off, he would pay for whoever was free to fly to the other one.

Clara had objected to him spending so much money on her and had managed to pay for a few of the flights, as now that Jack had paid her back, her money wasn’t so tight. But Taylor had sat her down and said he thought it would be fairest if they contributed to the flights proportionally, depending on their earnings for the previous year. She had agreed, then nearly fallen off her chair when they worked out he had earned two hundred times more than she had. And however much shecomplained, he would take no more than one two-hundredth of the cost of the travel from her.

Clara confirmed, “Yeah, it’s all booked. I’ve taken the whole week off.”

“Great. I’m flying straight in from Italy, so I’ll be there a couple of days after you.”

Clara nodded. “Yeah. Louisa invited me to stay at their house for those two days.”

After the trip to LA, she had managed to persuade Damien and Louisa to stop sending her so many flowers, but they had become firm friends. She chatted with one or the other of them most weeks, and Damien had already booked her for work on an upcoming film as his medical adviser.

“And Mom says you need to stay at the house after so she can hang out with you,” Taylor grumbled and rolled his eyes.

“Of course.” Clara laughed.

Gloria was apparently a big fan of hers and insisted on girl time whenever she could pry Clara away from Taylor, which wasn’t very often.

Clara’s phone beeped with a text message. It was from Ellen, one of the registrars.‘Any chance of a room for the night?’

‘Absolutely. Head on over.’Clara replied.

“Ellen’s coming over tonight,” Clara said to Taylor, who was so engrossed in his phone that he didn’t reply, only giving her a thumbs up.

When the pictures of her with Taylor first hit the press, they spread around the hospital like wildfire, with multiple people approaching Clara to ask if that was her and if it was true. She confirmed the rumours and let her quiz team know that the ‘Tom’ she had brought to their quiz night all those months ago was Taylor.

At first, it caused a huge amount of excitement, and Clara arranged a meal in a private room so the team could all meet Taylor.

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