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The baby cried even louder and Savannah reached out and took him.
“He said he found your…your…one of your pearls, I think.”
Millicent’s hand touched her throat. “I’m not missing any pearls.” She huffed loudly. “I’d better go and see what he’s talking about,” she grumbled.
“Pearls?” asked Savannah, putting the baby to her breast while her mother-in-law flew off on her broomstick.
The room was suddenly silent. “I didn’t know what else to say.”
“You came just in time,” said Savannah.
“I told you I would. I’ll leave you to it,” she said, anxious to get back to Luke, but when she walked back to the bannister, he’d gone.
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He had the gift couriered over a week later. She gingerly undid the packaging and took the delicate bracelet out of the box and examined it.
Whoa.
It looked like it was made from platinum, and engraved with the Cartier name, with what looked like tiny diamonds, given the way they sparkled. Tiny diamonds an inch apart all around it.
This was no ordinary impulse buy.
She slipped it on straight away, admiring it.
And then she hugged her hand over it, knowing that he had likely taken one last look at it, or had at least touched it before he’d sent it to her.
She had been thinking of him ever since the weekend. And now she wondered how much longer they would have carried on talking to that day, had she not put on her Superwoman cape and rescued Savannah from Millicent.
She stared at the bracelet again, and wondered what would have happened if he’d given her the bracelet instead of the lingerie. Would she have taken it to mean that he thought more of her than just a sex object? Because that had been her initial reaction when she’d opened the bag and found the skimpy lingerie.
She sent him a quick text, thanking him, and telling him it was lovely, and five minutes later he texted back saying he was glad she liked it.
Her finger hovered over her cell phone button again, poised with another question, but he had clearly moved on now, and it was time that she did, too.
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She liked it.
He knew she would.
Classy and chic, just like her.
It had been tough, seeing her again. When she’d gone off with that doctor, it had been easier to forget her, but then she’d showed up at Tobias’s place. He knew she would have, it being a big day for the Stones’ to show off their new twins.
He almost didn’t go, but Xavier had forced him to. Xavier who was so much calmer and laid back these days, had managed to get it out of him about Kay. He hadn’t told him everything, hadn’t in so many words talked about their arrangement, but just that they’d been together, and she had nursed him through his illness. That had been another thing Xavier hadn’t been too happy about. “You’re like a closed book, dude. It’s bad enough I don’t know who you’re sleeping with, but getting cancer and not telling me?”
He’d left Tobias’s place quickly, because talking to her, laughing with her, being around her, reminded him of what he had lost. She looked happier. She looked damn good, and he was conscious of the fact that he didn’t. It wasn’t easy getting his medication right. It wasn’t easy recovering from cancer, and it wasn’t easy trying to move on with his life.
And then Xavier had gone and told him that Kay had never been with Dr. Santini in the first place. And Savannah had casually mentioned that Kay was taking a break before she started her new job.
It got him thinking—because he also needed a break.
He could take a chance and risk it—and one of two things would happen. Either he’d piss her off so much that she’d think he was stalking her, or she’d actually listen.
And if she was on an island, where was she going to go?
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