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feels like actually going could be the best move that I’ve ever made.
    “I don’t know, but soon I hope. I just don’t want to rush it and I’m worried that if we’re alone together, I won’t be able to resist. He’s so sexy and he smells so…damn…good! Oi…you’re getting crumbs in the bed!”
    Pippa laughs as she tries to brush the toast crumbs out of her side of the bed onto the floor.
    “Oh it’s only crumbs! Anyway, what’s so wrong with not being able to resist. You’re two hot pieces who are intensely attracted to each other. I already know the sex is going to be mind blowing so just go for it!”
    I wish I could, but I need to resist, for a while at least. I don’t think for a second that Matthew is anything like any of my exes, but I need to be sure before I put my heart on the line. Who am I kidding? I want him too much already. Even without sex it’d kill me if he walked away.
    “Well, we’ll see. There was a definite spark, like a lightning strike to be fair, but I don’t know.  He might not even call! I might be cursed and just have to endure him dancing with his new gorgeous boyfriend at Rosie’s wedding!”
    I lay back and pull a pillow over my face. What is wrong with me? I’ve known the bloke a few hours and I’m already obsessed! Pippa laughs and pulls the pillow from my face. I’m trying to blindly fight her off when she holds up my illuminated phone for me to see.
    “He may not ever call Rafe, but I think he’s just text you!”
    I sit up and my heart is pounding, it’s probably just Rosie saying goodnight. I open the message.
    ‘I couldn’t wait any longer to get in touch! I hope you still want to see me again when you wake up tomorrow, I’ll call you to find out. Sleep well, M x’
    I am open mouthed, stunned! He wants me, really truly wants to see me again. I don’t know why I’m surprised, I knew there was something special between us but he actually text me, and he’s going to call.
    “Let me see then!” Pippa grabs my phone and leaps off the end of my bed, dancing around the room as she reads it aloud. “Wow, Rafe! He is keen…”
    She starts tapping away and I leap towards her as I realise that she’s replying. I grab my phone from her hand but she’s already clicked send.
    “I can’t wait. I can’t tell you how much I wish that I was the old version of me tonight, the one that would take a guy home within an hour of meeting him. My bed has never felt so empty! Rafe x’
    “PIP!”
    I am mortified and immediately start to type out another message.
    “I’m sorry, that was Pippa. She’s a nightmare!”
    I fear that I’ve blown it, well that Pippa has blown it for me, but my phone quickly beeps and vibrates in my hand.
    “That’s a shame…I was ready to call a taxi and ask for your address! I’ll call you tomorrow. Goodnight Rafe. M x’
    Pippa is smug as I try to keep the smile from my face. I text back simply ‘goodnight x’ before lying down and attempting to sleep, I don’t know how I’m going to manage to shut off my brain but if I do, I know for certain who I’ll be dreaming about.

Thirty Days
    Rafe
     
    Sunday
    I woke early this morning. Pip was up and singing in the shower before seven and there’s nobody on earth that could sleep through that. The only good thing about her being up before me is that she’s already got a pot of coffee on the go and the smell helps me into the land of the living.
    I stretched as I tried to wake up and reached for my phone. There was nothing new on there, “It’s the crack of dawn Rafe, give him chance!” I scolded myself out loud before I saw Matthew’s face in my mind’s eye again and started to smile. The way he twists his mouth up on the right side when he smiles is too delicious for words.
    After Pippa left, I pottered around the flat tidying and vacuuming Pippa’s toast crumbs from the side of the bed and almost forgot that I was waiting for his call.
     
    It’s almost midday when I hear