.. well, I really miss Rina. I'd enjoy, you know, just being able to talk to you. She and I were... pretty close."Uh oh. Laura realized how far she ma...y have gone the moment the words slipped out."Were you," Trina said in a dead voice, her face unexpressive."Yes." I guess... some time," Trina said, uninterested."Could I give you my number? Then, if you have an hour some time, I'd love to buy you coffee, a drink, whatever. Just so we could talk." Sure. Okay."Laura scribbled her phone number down. I'm Alec, you don't remember me?" She looked at me blankly, answering my question without speaking "I'm a good friend of your dad's. I was around when you were a baby... I had to move to Australia for business a while back. I'm here again now though." Her beautiful smile lit up her face again. She bobbled a bit, which made her little breasts slightly jiggle. Was she wearing a bra? What a tease. "Well nice to see you again, Mr?" Mr? No, don't make me feel old. I'm Alec Miller, but you can call. I twisted to reach my phone and turn off the alarm, when I realised my other arm was pinned down.I turned back and was confronted with a mass of red hair that spilled across the adjacent pillow and half my chest. It smelt wonderful.As quietly and gently as possible I pulled my arm – which at that moment felt more like a lump of clay that had spun off the potter’s wheel, rather than an appendage that was still attached to me – from beneath her neck. Summer mumbled and muttered and curled up. " An observant lady too!"Isobel blushed. "Sorry! That was rude of me." Not at all. I'm flattered that you took such an interest in my appearance." Please don't let it go to your head."Gerry smiled. "Little chance of that." He changed the subject back to her. "Have you specialised entirely in family law?" Oh Heavens no. It probably takes up no more than thirty per cent of my work although it tends to take more time, perhaps because it's never straight forward."Gerry ran Isobel back to Pitsbury..
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