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‘Martha rang me—’
‘Martha did?’
‘After you’d been to see them. She told me that the two of us needed our heads knocking together—but of course in my stubbornness I refused to believe her. I went there convinced that seeing you again would be enough to banish the spell you had cast on me for ever. But, of course, it had exactly the opposite effect.’ He paused. ‘Are you angry?’
‘With Martha?’
‘No. With me.’
‘I’m rather flattered that you should have gone chasing across the snowy countryside in order to exorcise my ghost,’ she murmured.
‘And a fat lot of good it did!’ he murmured wryly. ‘And now, of course, I’d fly round the world a hundred times just to catch a glimpse of your beautiful face, Triss Alexander. Oh, hell!’ He briefly buried his face in his hands then looked up at her mock-despairingly. ‘Did I really say that?’
‘Yes, you really did!’ she gurgled contentedly. ‘And I rather like it when you’re being sloppy.’
‘Then you’ll marry me?’
‘Yes,’ she whispered.
‘When?’
‘Tomorrow?’
He gave her a mock frown. ‘Don’t know if I can wait that long,’ he murmured, then eyed the two plates of Caesar salad which the waiter had just placed on the table in front of them. He wrinkled his
nose. ‘Can you?’
‘Are we talking about marriage now?’ she queried primly. ‘Or bed?’
His eyes glinted. ‘Bed.’
‘I thought you’d never ask,’ Triss sighed, and stood up as Cormack took a wad of notes from his wallet and flung them down on the table without even bothering to count them.
They could barely wait until they were outside before they were in each other’s arms and kissing each other like there was no tomorrow.
Inside the restaurant, the two Italian waiters looked on at the embracing couple indulgently, while several of the women sighed jealously and were almost—but not quite—tempted to give in to the dessert trolley.
In fact, as one heavily jewelled and bone-thin woman remarked to her equally bone-thin friend, she didn’t know why some people bothered going out to eat, when food was obviously the last thing on their minds.
And Triss and Cormack—if they could have heard—would have agreed with her wholeheartedly!
