Lucy
“Shall we?”
I took his hand and let him lead me out of the house and downstairs. The car we were taking had a driver. Tony helped me into the back seat and climbed in after me. He checked his watch.
“We should make it in good time,” he said. “There are drinks if you want them. It’s a bit of a drive.”
“Thanks,” I said and grabbed a bottle of water out of the fridge.
Tony poured himself a drink and pulled me towards him across the seats. He wrapped his arm around me as I drank from my water bottle and hummed as he rested his head on mine.
“You’re much better company than Matt is.” He sipped his drink. “He’d be talking my ear off with his complaints the entire way there.”
“Oh.”
“That’s if I could get him to go,” he said. “It’ll be nice to have a night with you without him.”
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