“Oliver?” Cassie stood for a second, bemused, after which rushed to greet him, her lengthy floaty skirt flying round her legs as she ran.

Catherine watched as she flung herself at him and noticed him carry Cassie and swing her spherical.

“I used to be about to cellphone you to ask for particular instructions as a result of you understand how awful I’m at discovering locations.” He hugged her tightly and Catherine thought that if her daughter stopped hugging him again and checked out him for a second she’d see the expression on his face. Or possibly she was imagining it. What did she learn about love anyway?

She glanced at Adeline and noticed that her different daughter was smiling. So possibly she hadn’t imagined it, in any case.

Cassie lastly let go of Oliver and stepped again. “However what are you doing right here?”

“You sounded unusual on the cellphone.”

“You flew right here as a result of I sounded unusual on the cellphone?”

“Sure. You didn’t inform me what was flawed and also you all the time inform me when one thing is flawed.”

Cassie was laughing. “However you can have known as.”

“And then you definitely would have been evasive once more. I needed to see you in individual. I can keep in a resort. Or get a flight house tomorrow or one thing.”

“Did you carry Suzy?”

Who, Catherine questioned, was Suzy?

“No, in fact I didn’t carry Suzy.” Oliver was frowning. “Why would I carry Suzy?”

“Since you’re again collectively once more.”

“We’re not. Why would you suppose that?”

“She was there once I known as you final night time.”

“As a result of I used to be feeling down, and she or he came visiting to hearken to me and provides ethical help. Not as a result of we’re again collectively.” He stopped. “Wait—is that why you had been humorous with me? Since you thought we had been collectively?”

“Why had been you feeling down? And why didn’t you inform me you had been feeling down as a substitute of letting me go on and on about my issues.”

This is sort of a dangerous rom-com, Catherine thought, the place you simply need to shake some sense into each characters.

They had been gazing at one another, oblivious to the remainder of Cassie’s household, the vacationers, the glowing ocean and the cloudless sky.

“If I used to be penning this,” Catherine mentioned to nobody particularly, “this is able to be the second when he kisses her.”

And simply as she thought that, Cassie wrapped her arms round Oliver’s neck and pulled his head right down to hers, kissing him passionately. His arms got here around her and he kissed her again, his mouth hungry on hers. There was a desperation in the way in which they clung to one another.

Adeline cleared her throat and glanced at her mom. “Nicely, there you go,” she mentioned. “Appears as in the event you haven’t completely misplaced your contact relating to romance. Though technically she kissed him first.”

They stood collectively, aspect by aspect, watching shamelessly as Oliver and Cassie murmured issues that nobody else might hear.

“Converse up.” Adeline was grinning as she raised her voice. “We need to hear the dialogue.”

Cassie turned, her cheeks pink and her eyes shining. “He loves me.” She glanced again at Oliver, all of the sudden uncertain. “You’re positive you like me? You’re completely positive? Even the actually annoying issues about me?”

“Cass, I’ve beloved you for years.”

“However why didn’t you say one thing?”

“Since you stored saying that whenever you fell in love, you’d understand it instantly. Which I assumed was your means of claiming you weren’t in love with me.”

“Oh, what a tangled mess,” Catherine mentioned. “It could possibly be Shakespeare.”

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