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  “Do you want to move in with me?” Chrissie asked quietly.

  “Are you serious?” I stopped in my tracks, tears filling my eyes.

  “It’s just an idea,” Chrissie told me. “If you were thinking of moving in with Adam or something, just say so.”

  “I want to live with you,” I told her, and I pulled her in for a hug. I’d already discussed our living arrangements with Adam, after deciding I couldn’t cope with Melissa anymore, and we’d decided it was too soon for us to move in together. We’d rather carry on enjoying things the way they were.

  “This is amazing!” Kelly screeched. “I’ll come over all the time for girlie nights! We can give each other manicures and pedicures and facials—”

  “And have pillow fights,” Ryan suggested. “In your underwear.” He stopped talking as we all glared at him. “What? That’s what women do, isn’t it?”

  “Somebody hit him,” I said with a sigh. Ryan took off through the airport, Matt and Dylan chasing him.

  “It might be fun, though,” Kelly mused.

  “Pillow fights?” Chrissie asked.

  “Yeah.” She watched our reactions, and then cackled with laughter.

  “Who’s coming to Dylan’s?” Matt asked when we caught up with them outside the terminal building.

  “Well, I don’t really drink,” I told them seriously, before breaking into a grin.

  “Next you’ll be telling us you don’t wear heels!” Chrissie said, looking down at my new cowboy boots, which had a low heel.

  “Go on then – just one drink.”

  Then I caught sight of Adam walking towards us.

  “Did I miss Margaret?” he asked.

  “Yep,” I told him. “She’s gone.”

  “I got stuck at work.”

  “We’re all going to Dylan’s,” I told him as we walked towards the car park.

  “There’s a surprise!”

  “See you there,” Matt called when we split up.

  “I missed you.” Adam turned to me when we reached his car.

  “I only saw you yesterday.” I grinned at him.

  “I know.” In the car, he kissed me, then reached behind my seat. “I’ve got a present for you.”

  I grinned, taking the flat package from him and pulling at the brown paper that covered it. “One of your photos?”

  “What do you think?”

  I opened it, uncovering a photo of a huge oak tree, halfway up a lush green field, a stream running in the foreground and the sky a beautiful bright blue above. A bench with a figure sitting on it was just visible in the background. I gasped. “It’s amazing. Is this where we were the day you did the photo shoot for Angela?”

  He nodded. “I’m calling it ‘Lucy through the lens’.”

  “Oh!” I looked more closely at the figure sitting on the bench in the distance. “That’s me! I love it. Thank you.” I kissed him and looked again at the photo as Adam started the engine. “But I had all those bags at my feet … Where have they gone?”

  He managed to keep a straight face while he reversed out of the parking space. “Do you really need me to explain the concept of editing?”

  I smiled. “Actually, I think I know a bit about that already.”

  THE END

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  Table of Contents

  Acknowledgements

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Chapter 39

  Chapter 40

  Chapter 41

  Chapter 42

  Chapter 43

  Epilogue

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  A note from the author.