no problem.’
‘I live miles away.’
‘I’ll save you the fare, then.’
‘No, thanks.’
Why? Holly asked herself. Why was she saying no? Because she couldn’t say no to him.
‘Come on.’
He jangled his keys and Holly nodded. Really, it was just a colleague giving her a lift home and it would be bliss not to have to make small talk with a taxi driver or sit in the back as he chatted on his phone.
Liar, liar.
They got in his car, and this time she was in the front.
That’s better, both thought but didn’t say.
‘Address?’ he asked, and she gave it to him.
Daniel typed it into his phone and that took care of that, and then he started the engine.
‘Head north,’ his phone said.
‘I hate that,’ Daniel admitted. ‘I have no idea which way north is. I need a compass in the middle of my steering wheel.’
‘She means turn left,’ Holly said.
‘Thank you.’
‘Are you all packed?’ Holly made a feeble attempt at small talk and he nodded.
‘Sort of. I’m trying to rent out my flat. Apparently December isn’t an ideal time to find tenants.’
‘So it that why your plans keep changing?’
‘In part.’
‘Well, you might just as well stick around for Christmas...’
‘I doubt it. I might even fly out then, it’s just another day.’
‘You don’t mean that.’
‘I do,’ Daniel said, and he gave her a smile. ‘We’re polar opposites.’ And then he stared ahead at the road and it did not need stating—that opposites attracted.
Both already knew.
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