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“Only an hour by plane.”
“I can hardly afford to fly all the time.”
“He might be prepared to pay for you to fly, though.”
I frown at her. “I don’t think so.”
“You never know.”
“I can’t let what we’ve found on the Internet change my decision. That’s just tacky. The last thing he’s going to want is for a girl to be after his money. That’s obviously why he was on Tinder.”
She sighs and rests her chin on a hand. “Would be nice though, wouldn’t it? Having all that cash.”
I’m not even going to think about it. I liked him before I knew he was rich. I’m not going to let his bank balance influence the fact that I’ve already told him I don’t want a relationship.
“Come on, drink up. We’ve got a long drive, and we should get going.”
She finishes her coffee, and the two of us head back out to the car. Soon, Wellington is in my rear-view mirror, and I set my mind to moving forward.
Chapter Ten
Kip
I go home, shower and change, pick up a breakfast wrap and a coffee on the way in to work, and arrive just before eight thirty, about an hour after I usually get there.
As I walk past Marion’s desk, she says brightly, “Morning, Mr. Chevalier.”
I give her a wry look. “Don’t start.”
“I only said good morning.”
“You said it with a glimmer in your eye.”
She grins. “Have a nice evening, did we?”
I pick up my post, then turn and rest my butt on the table. “I did, as it happens.”
“The meal went well?” she asks. I told her yesterday that I was taking Alice to Red’s Rib Shack with Saxon and Catie.
“Yeah. The ribs were amazing.”
“Great, because I want to know all about the cuisine.”
I sip my coffee. Then I smile. “She was lovely. Warm and funny. You’d have liked her.”
“Will I get to meet her?”
I sigh. “She lives in Gisborne.”
“Oh, shit.”
“Yeah.”
We study each other for a moment.
Then she says, “You’re not going to let a little thing like four hundred kilometers come between you, are you?”
“Absolutely not. I’m working on it.”
