One Weekend in Prague by Alison Roberts

Author:Alison Roberts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-06-10T14:51:09+00:00

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Mac watched Hanna walking a little ahead of him, heading downhill, which would lead them to the way out of this astonishing park.

He wanted to catch her hand and pull her to a stop again but he couldn’t. What if it made him feel like he had moments ago when she was dancing with him to that guitar music? When it felt like another moment of the kind of happiness he’d experienced on the day they ate ice creams on the beach? What if he ended up risking too much by saying what he was really thinking?

Mac might tell her that these few days had changed everything. That he felt like he might be falling in love with her and he couldn’t bear the thought of never seeing her again. But...she hadn’t disagreed with him when he’d said that it couldn’t last for ever. That this was no more than a fling. She already had plans for the rest of her holiday and it wouldn’t surprise Mac at all if she met someone else along the way. Someone who was more like herself and could embrace the kind of freedom and openness and ability to live life to the absolute limit that was such a part of Hanna’s soul.

He wasn’t about to spoil anything for her by making their parting difficult in any way and he wasn’t about to make a fool of himself by suggesting that this was anything more than Hanna believed it was so it was just as well he was a master at hiding his feelings. He’d been telling the truth when he’d said he’d never forget her but he had his doubts about following her advice to take more risks in his life. Risk was the opposite of control, after all, and he’d spent his life keeping as much control as he could to avoid exactly that.

Control kept you safe from the kind of emotions that, right now, were threatening to become unpleasantly overwhelming so the sooner he got on with restoring familiar levels of normality the better. Mac pulled his phone from his pocket, opening a browser as he continued walking.

Because it wouldn’t hurt to check if there were any flights from Barcelona to Amsterdam later today. If nothing else, it would be a good first step in the right direction. Back to the ordered reality of his own planet, which might lack the same levels of personal indulgence and pleasure but at least it was safe.

And being safe was almost the same thing as being happy.

Wasn’t it...?

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