Of course she is. She’s f*****g waiting for him.
“Take her and leave.”
“Zara –”
“Maybe go for a nice dinner with her,” I spit out. “Carry on your flirting, like you were doing in the kitchen.”
His whole body stills. For one second, neither of us speaks. Then he exhales.
“Is that what this is all about?”
The question slices straight through me. “What?”
“I didn’t realize that was what you thought you saw.”
“What I thought?”
His jaw tightens. “That came out wrong.”
“It came out exactly right, I think. The way that you really mean it.”
He runs a hand over his face. “Willow turned up because Jade told her you were having treatment. She brought some herbal tea and something she’d baked. I told her you were asleep.”
“And then you opened the wine?”
“She opened it. She brought it, actu
