Page 39 of The Christmas Holiday
‘You’re welcome.’ He glanced across at me.‘See? Not all surprises are bad.’
I gave him a smile and had to agree. ‘Habit of a lifetime. Hard to break.’
He nodded once and looked away.
‘Have you shown this to Olivia and Sandeep yet?’
‘No. I didn’t like to interrupt them tonight. We’ve got all of tomorrow before the Diwali party in the evening so I’ll show them then.’
‘I’m so excited about the thing tomorrow. Are you?’
‘Yeah. Should be good.’
He didn’t sound all that excited.
‘Everything OK?’
‘Yep.’ His leg had stilled now and the easy feeling of earlier seemed to have suddenly dissipated. Honestly, sometimes I felt so comfortable around him, and other times it was like he was a total stranger. He’d never been complicated before. Now I wasn’t so sure.
‘Ready to go down?’
I nodded and webegan our descent from the secret rooftop gem.
