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She hesitated. She’d been hoping to see him in the lobby, so that she could speak to him there for a while sitting on one of the plush sofas at one end. The lobby was safe, and didn’t give ideas. He was hitting on her, or trying to. She knew.
“Uh…I don’t know,” she said, slowly. She wasn’t keen on going for a drink, or a coffee, or dinner. He’d pursued her, not relentlessly, not crazily, but with a few phone calls over the past few weeks. Hadn’t helped that she’d been especially generous the last time, talking to him for a long time, after that argument with Luke. Loneliness did that sometimes, and their conversation had moved on from stocks and shares, and the markets, and economy, to personal things.
She was afraid now, now that she had met with Luke, and her emotions were in turmoil again, that Dr. Santini would want to delve more down the personal route then simply wanting investing tips from her.
“Surely a drink or two won’t hurt?”
She knew otherwise. A drink or two was exactly how things had started the last time. “I really can’t.”
He looked disappointed. “You’re always working so hard, Kay.”
She examined his face, but she still had Luke’s face imprinted on her mind. At one time she might have even considered Dr. Santini to be handsome. He was handsome, and clever and sexy; the perfect combination. Like Luke had been once. And so far, he had been incredibly attentive, and nice, and interested. Just like Luke had been, and still was.
Dr. Santini was the type of man to give her the happy-ever-after she’d dreamed of.
Just like she had hoped Luke would have, once.
She was starting to mesh the two, starting to think of her conversation with Luke just now. Starting to get sucked back into it. Into him.
She couldn’t go there. Would not let herself. “I can give you some general investment advice and tips,” she said. “And it will be just for the one drink.”
“One drink. I appreciate it.”
As he hailed another cab, she glanced over her shoulder a couple of times, and thought she saw Luke standing there, watching them. When she blinked, he was gone.
Chapter 45
She had been at the hospital soon after the twins arrived, and had cried, and hugged and been swept up in the joy of the moment. Having new life injected a burst of happiness in her life, and for the next few weeks, Kay was at Savannah’s house, most weekends.
Even if Savannah had allowed Tobias to get a nanny, there would have been no point. She practically lived at the Stone’s new residence for the first two weeks. She stayed over some nights because there was room, and because Savannah was tired, and breastfeeding, and because Jacob’s excitement never let up; because Tobias and Savannah were so hands-on with their boys, and there was so much going on.
Being here was so much better than sitting in her own apartment. Time, at the sprawling Stone mansion, flew by.
She was there when their families came to see Lewis and Samuel. She was Savannah’s wing woman when her mother-in-law, Millicent came over, and then her own mother and Savannah’s parents. She was there when Xavier and Izzy turned up.
Apparently they had been away earlier to the Hamptons for a weekend, and it was official, they were an item now.
It was towards the end of June when the job she had desperately wanted, came through. After four rounds of interviews, the company—previously one of their main competitors—came through. They wanted her, and offered her the job. She was due to join in a few weeks’ time. Breaking her good news to Remington had given her a long overdue sense of satisfaction, and telling him she'd been taken on as an executive director, had left him speechless, something she had never before witnessed.
She had parted ways with her current company only last week.
With a month stretching out in front of her, a much needed month of rest, and recovery, she had decided to stay in New York for a week, before taking a couple of weeks off on vacation.
Savannah and Tobias were going back to Kawaya, the private island on which they’d gotten married. Jacob’s school had ceased for the summer holidays, and they were going to spend the summer there, and they had invited her along.
She was thinking about it. Not sure whether she wanted to return to the island where such bittersweet memories lay.
“When are they going to wake up?” Jacob asked, for the third or fourth time since she’d arrived. He was in the nursery, and the two boys were lying in their own cots. “Shhhh, Jacob,” she said, putting her finger to her lips.
“I want to play with them before everyone gets here.”
“Oh, sweetie. We should let them sleep as much as they can. Your mom and dad need the rest.”
While everyone had come to see the new arrivals in the hospital, the proud parents had asked for a few weeks before they had visitors at their home while Savannah was still recovering from the birth.
But with the boys now almost a month old, Tobias and Savannah had opened their house to close friends and family so that everyone could come and meet the new Stone brothers.
Savannah’s parents and Kay’s mother had been here for a few days already, and Tobias’s parent’s had just arrived when Kay went in to let her know.
