Staying Out for the Summer by Mandy Baggot

Author:Mandy Baggot [Baggot, Mandy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781800243071
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Thirty-Four

Ice Dream, Perithia

‘So, what I really want to know now is…’ Lucie deliberately stopped talking and waited for Michalis’s dark eyes to meet hers over the gigantic portion of waffles and ice cream they were sharing. They had devoured the moist and tender swordfish steaks, finished the wine and then Michalis had said she had to indulge in the Ice Dream experience. They left the car in Perithia and took the short walk to the gelateria that was apparently known for having the best ice cream on the island. And there were flavours right the way through the taste spectrum. Taking ten minutes to select a few difference choices had enabled Lucie’s dinner to settle in her stomach and they had eventually opted for the baklava and mint chocolate chip flavours after much debate.

‘Yes?’ Michalis replied, spoon poised near his lips. Delectable lips that somehow looked even more delectable when he was eating ice cream. He had taken off the jacket earlier and Lucie was very much enjoying the body contouring shirt…

‘Are there any photos of you in this costume made of sheep’s wool?’ She laughed then, but it tailed off as she felt the vibration of her mobile phone. It had been going off periodically for the last twenty minutes or so and after she had checked it in the toilets and seen it was Gavin, she knew exactly what it was about. Gavin was ready to make up. Her best friend never held a grudge for long. Probably the longest falling-out they had ever had was around twelve hours and that had been during a Netflix marathon and had all started with a ‘discussion’ about the hotness of Penn Badgley. But Lucie wasn’t going to let Gavin’s need to move on interrupt her date with Michalis. Her phone was on silent now and that’s how it was going to stay.

‘There may be,’ he answered, digging his spoon into the spongy waffles. ‘But I will never allow you to see them.’

‘Well,’ Lucie began. ‘The next time I am in the butcher’s I will ask your sister about them.’

‘Please do not do that,’ Michalis said with a good-natured groan. ‘I can see the expression on her face now. She lives to find ways to humiliate me.’

Lucie smiled. ‘You seem to get on well.’

‘We do,’ he agreed. ‘And we get on even better when I live in Thessaloniki.’

‘Will you go back there soon?’ Lucie asked.

He looked up. ‘Am I boring you?’ There was an eyebrow raise of epically hot proportions that sent a shot of sauna through her.

‘No… not at all. I just… didn’t know what your plans were. Now you have a surgery at my holiday accommodation.’

‘That was… not planned but, here, sometimes it is better to give a little when you can. I am meant to be on holiday but—’

‘You decided you would carry on treating the sick and needy instead of relaxing by a pool and drinking cocktails. That’s true dedication to your Hippocratic oath. And that’s probably why I’m only a nurse.

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