At least Lily wasn’t. At first she’d clutched onto Kit’s reassurance that they were fine as if it were a lifeline, and had buried the tiny bubble of doubt somewhere deep inside where it wouldn’t bother her. Which hadn’t been all that hard because when he’d got back from Rome everything had been so lovely. After a weekend spent making up as promised, he’d announced that he was going to cut back on work and delegate as much as he could. With the extra time, if she was amenable to the idea, he was going to woo her. Lily had been very amenable to the idea, and had adored the dates, the dinners and the two minibreaks he’d taken her on. He’d poured every drop of spare energy into them and she’d fallen more and more in love with him every day that had passed. Which made the fact that the doubt she tried to get rid of kept bubbling away all the more frustrating. And she did try.
