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stairs holding Toby’s present. His instinct told him her behavior
was very odd. She had always been straight with him. Why wouldn’t she be now?
Did she feel differently towards him for some reason? And why had she kissed
him on the cheek? That was unusual. He stopped dead in his tracks. Did Rose
have new feelings for him? Is that why she was being weird? He hoped not. He
would have to watch her carefully today, he didn’t want to say anything to make
it awkward but he didn’t fancy her, that would be totally uncomfortable, she
was his best friend and they were cousins.

Chapter Four
     
    Rose poked
her head cautiously round the door to her room. Diana was still asleep, thank
goodness, her long dark hair streaming over the pillow. She looked serene,
almost nice when she was asleep, Rose thought.
    She crept
back into her own bed, plumped up the pillows behind her back and took out the
gift Leo had given her. She pulled the ribbon off slowly. She was extremely
curious about it, but she couldn’t help wanting to make the moment last. What
would he buy her? She hadn’t put her gift to him under the tree until the
previous evening so how had he known to get her something? It was probably a
generic gift he had kept just in case he needed one for someone, and then he’d
probably wrapped it at the last minute when he saw she had bought something for
him.
    The ribbon
off, she eased the lid of the box and gasped. This was no generic gift! It was
a silver necklace with a winged horse pendant. She glanced up at the massive
poster over her bed of Pegasus flying against a full moon.
    Leo had
never been in her room but her love of winged horses was reasonably well known.
This gift had been bought especially for her. It was a perfect match with the
silver star studs she always wore at her ears and the silver bracelet her
parents had given her for her 16 th birthday.
    I should put it in my trunk, she thought; it was bound to draw
attention. Someone would ask where she got it. But she just couldn’t, she
already loved it and just
had
to wear it. She fastened it around her
neck and after pausing for just a moment to admire it again she slipped it
inside her top so it couldn’t be easily seen.
    She lay
back on the bed to think about how she felt about the kiss and the gift.
    She touched
her fingers to her lips. It had felt wonderful. But as handsome as Leo was, he
was still a Flanagan. His uncle was definitely dangerous, and his cousins had
been suspected of related criminal activities, even his own father had been
implicated, though later he had been cleared. But that didn’t make Leo a
criminal.
    Rose sighed
loudly, it didn’t make any difference, she couldn’t go anywhere near him. All
her family had been warned to be cautious about his family and her parents
would be really concerned. It was fine for Jack and Alex to be friendly to him
when they were all thrown together, like this Christmas. It was in their nature
to be friendly to everyone. But they wouldn’t deliberately seek him out and
they would be horrified if Rose were to ever be
more than friends
with
him.
    Across the
room, Diana began to wake up. Rose snatched up a book and pretended to be
reading it. Diana was another problem. Diana wouldn’t like the idea of Rose and
Leo kissing, she was sure of it, and she still had to share a room with Diana
for the next year and a half.
    Why was she
even thinking about this? Ok, so they kissed. Big deal. It wasn’t likely to
happen again. So they were attracted to each other. She was attracted to lots
of boys, she reasoned. He had kissed several girls if the stories were true. In
fact he was probably just proving he could. Pushing boundaries. Nothing more.
    But what a
kiss!
    She had
acknowledged he was attractive a long time ago, but that hadn’t made her want
to do anything about it. Now she wondered how she could have been in the same
room as him for years without wanting to kiss him. It was like a spell had
lifted, or had