Innocent Secret. Josie Metcalfe

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      ‘Who are you going to be taking?’ she asked. ‘I presume this is a couples thing.’

      ‘You know me,’ he said with a grin. ‘I don’t like to plan anything too far in advance, especially something like a date. You never know what might have happened to the relationship in the meantime.’

      ‘Relationship?’ Vicky hooted. ‘I don’t think you’ve ever kept a girlfriend longer than a couple of days and I don’t call that a relationship.’

      ‘Are you any better?’ he retorted, startling Vicky with the sudden edge to his voice. ‘You eat your heart out for a dozen or more years, and when the guy finally asks you to marry him you back out at the last minute.’

      There was something in the unexpected sharpness that made her wonder if her Jack-the-lad brother might not have sailed through his life quite as smoothly as she’d always believed. Was there something hidden in his past that had made him wary of even the most elementary level of commitment? Had she been too wrapped up in her own concerns to notice?

      ‘Well, if neither of us has a ready partner, perhaps we should go together,’ she suggested, shelving her intriguing thoughts for later.