“How could you doubt me?” Jessica stood up, trying to hide the excitement he engendered in her.
“There’s plenty more I can show you,” he said. “How come you’ve never visited the Red Centre?” Something she had mentioned. “Or Kakadu, which is the jewel in the Top End crown—maybe a little off the beaten track—but Alice Springs? It’s quite a tourist destination these days. Our desert monuments, Uluru and Kata Tjuta, are world-famous.”
“Maybe when you have the time you can take me.” She gave him a sidelong glance.
“Jessica, we don’t know yet if you’re staying.”
“Why does it bother you so much? My staying, that is.”
“I have my reasons.”
“That sounds intriguing. So what are you going to do to frighten me off?”
“Whatever it is I have to act fast.” He met her eyes, a gleam of mockery in his. “No. It’s going to be your decision.”
“Your father’s, surely,” she said. They walked down the flight of stone steps together, Jessica acutely conscious of his height and pure, animal magnetism.
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