I rustle around in the picnic bag and find a sausage roll to put in her mouth.
‘What a shame Nicola isn’t here too,’ Meredith says. ‘It’d be like a Barcelona reunion.’
Nathan turns to me. ‘Did you manage to enjoy your holiday? It sounded quite eventful – for all of you.’
‘Well, yes. We still had the time of our lives, though,’ I reassure Meredith. ‘I’ve no doubt Nicola will say the same when I go and see her next week. We’re going over to her mum’s for a barbeque on the Saturday. And so’s Jess, apparently.’
She clears her throat with zero subtlety and I look up to see Harry approaching us.
He has a present for Florence under his arm. I’d told him he didn’t need to buy her something, but he insisted that he was prepared to try every cheap trick in the book to make sure this went smoothly. I was happy to concur, although I drew the line at the pink hoover.
My pulse quickens as I glance from him to Florence and a series of anxious questions flutter across my brain.
Will she like him?
Will he like her?
Should I have left this introduction a little while longer?
It’s the last thought that’s thudding in my head when Meredith leaps up and removes her sunglasses. ‘Well, look who it is!’ she says, grinning as she gives him a flamboyant hug. She then introduces him to Nathan and Adam who, technically, she says, Harry’s already met after, as she delicately puts it, she’d ‘squeezed him out in the back of the limo’.
Eventually, Harry turns to look at me and Florence, who’s been scrutinising him silently. He smiles and kneels down, kissing me on the cheek self-consciously enough to make me realise he’s nervous too. As he pulls back, he turns to my daughter. ‘You must be Florence. I’m Harry. And this is for you.’
He hands her the present and she gasps. ‘THANK YOU!’ Then, ‘You know what,’ she continues, ripping off paper and barely pausing for breath. ‘I think my mummy loves you.’
He catches my eye and I stifle a smile.
Because I think she might be right.
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Table of Contents
Author biography
Also by Jane Costello
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Acknowledgments
Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
Day One
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Day Two
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Day Three
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Day Four
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Day Five
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Day Six
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Day Seven
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Day Eight
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Epilogue
Table of Contents
Author biography
Also by Jane Costello
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Acknowledgments
Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
Day One
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Day Two
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Day Three
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Day Four
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Day Five
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Day Six
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Day Seven
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Day Eight
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Epilogue
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