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“The tyre’s changed and I’m ready to go,” he called out.

Tom raised a hand in acknowledgement. “That was quick work,” he said to Carole.

“Thank goodness we won’t be stuck out here any longer than we already have been.”

She regretted the words instantly. Tom frowned, a hurt expression crossing his face briefly, but he covered it with a nod towards the waiting taxi.

“Let’s go home,” he said.

Carole climbed back into the taxi, feeling miserable and annoyed with herself, and wondering how the wonderful day they’d just spent could have ended so horribly.

And wondering, too, how on earth she’d ever forget about the most spectacular kiss she’d ever had in her entire life.