Instead of waiting for him, she dived into the adjoining bathroom and deliberately kept the door ajar, an open invitation for him to join her.

After a good few minutes of soaping herself under the powerful walk-in shower and washing her hair, boredom kicked in.

She dried herself quickly, rubbed the towel over her hair and moisturised her face.

She made to leave the bathroom, pausing at the last moment to put her robe back on, not yet confident enough to walk around stark naked in broad daylight.

The door of the bathroom he’d been using was open. Masculine scents mingled with the steam of the shower, filling the empty bedroom.

Maybe he was ordering breakfast for them.

She wandered through to the main living area of the suite and found him at the dining table—fully dressed and working on his laptop.

He looked up and flashed a quick smile. ‘Good morning.’

off-guard to find him working. For surely he must be working? He hadn’t even donned casual clothes but wore a white shirt and blue

she asked. They were due to fly there later that afternoon for a four-day

uncomfortable look spread over his face, quickly gone, but there

our honeymoon another time,’ he said calmly, looking back at his laptop. ‘An emergency has come

‘Another one?’

a smile that was clearly intended to bestow patience when all it

is all about finance. When financial problems hit

appreciate that. What I don’t get is why it has to

is no one

in suspicion. ‘What about our honeymoon and the way it’s supposed to

going through the accounts and has discovered a large hole in the company’s finances. Unless we plug that hole in the next two days, fifty thousand people will not receive their pay cheques. That’s fifty thousand people who will struggle to pay their bills, their mortgages, feed their children. We will go to Marrakech

could she argue with that? She couldn’t, not unless she wanted

detected was real or the workings of a tired, disappointed mind. Four days in Marrakech with nothing to do but laze under

was real. What she did dispute was his assertion that he was the

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