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not forget him or his kiss. No man had ever kissed her like that before. It had been like an electric current running through her body and setting her quivering uncontrollably.
    There was nothing to it, she told herself impatiently. The man was just experienced and it showed. But she had been kissed by men of experience before with none of the electric reaction that had fused her to Nick.

CHAPTER TWO
    The next few weeks were uneventful to Davina in the way that there was no Nick to brighten them. Strange how she missed him. Cheryl remarked on his absence several times.
    ‘Did you know that Nick used to be in the Guards?’ she said one day at a slack moment in the shop. ‘That was before his father introduced him into banking. Now he’s one of the leading international bankers.’
    She had been gazing through the window. Now she was hugging her upper arms and gliding slowly around the shop as though dancing with the absent Nick.
    Dreamily, she said, ‘Can you imagine him with his uniform hat set on those fair curls, his legs in those long shiny boots and all that heavenly uniform?’ She sighed. ‘It makes you swoon just to think of it!’
    Davina laughed. ‘Life isn’t like that, Cheryl, as you’ll discover. Maybe you ought to have been a nurse or something like that. You wouldn’t only have no time to dream, you’d see life as it really is.’
    ‘It’s an idea. How would I look in uniform? Some nurses today are wearing beautifully coloured overalls as pretty as ours.’
    Davina said carefully, ‘Who told you about Nick? You seem to know an awful lot about him.’
    ‘I heard folks talking at the party Mrs. Tabor gave. He isn’t married.’
    Davina lifted her head from looking down at the order book.
    ‘No? The man evidently believes in loving and leaving them. I bet he’s had more love affairs than you or I have had hot dinners.’
    ‘What if he has? A man of experience is always more exciting. Why don’t you like him?’
    ‘We don’t know anything about him, do we? And that’s bad.
    In any case I’m not interested one way or the other.’
    Davina knew when she spoke the words that they were not true. She was continually thinking about Nick and wondering where he was.

    A week later he strode into the shop as if he had never been away and her heart leapt in her breast.
    Davina was alone in the shop, Cheryl having gone out to do some shopping for their evening meal at the flat.
    For several palpitating moments Nick looked at her with unsmiling consideration, then sketched a faint bow which was supercilious in its lightness, and she felt her face grow hot.
    ‘Good afternoon, Davina. I trust I find you well.’
    ‘Very well indeed,’ she replied. She knew her voice was crackling with dislike, but she did not care.
    ‘That is indeed good news,’ he said sardonically. ‘It means you will be fit to go out with me this evening for dinner.’
    She gave a slight start and he watched with pleasure the way her eyes with their tantalising tilt filled with a sparkling anger as she stared at him.
    ‘Mr. Tabor,’ she said with a quiet dignity which sat well upon her slender shoulders, ‘I have no time for playing games. Is there anything you might be wanting—and I would remind you that I asked you not to come into my shop again.’
    ‘Yes, there is something I want very badly. You,’ he stated baldly.
    ‘I’m sorry, but I’m not for sale, Mr. Tabor.’
    ‘It was Nick the other time we met. What’s wrong in going out to dine with me? You’ll enjoy it.’
    ‘You mean you intend to. I shouldn’t. I neither like nor trust you.’
    ‘You don’t know me well enough to either like or trust me.
    Why don’t you find out? Or are you scared?’
    Davina lifted her chin. ‘I don’t want to know you.’
    ‘I’m perfectly respectable,’ he said dryly. ‘I have an elder brother who’s a surgeon visiting the States, Juleen’s husband. I began a career in the Guards because I loved horses, but my father