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resurrecting it. Still, there wasn’t any harm in hedging her bets and just keeping out of his way to make sure. She tugged at Emma’s sleeve, about to suggest they try the wine bar farther down the smart little parade of shops and cafés, but Daniel chose that moment to turn round.
    Their gazes locked, and the heat filling his eyes short-circuited her vocal cords.
    It also made her very angry.
    His timing really sucked, didn’t it? Because if he’d looked at her like that a decade ago she wouldn’t be in this mess right now. She might have been in a whole different kind of mess, but at least she wouldn’t have been humiliated beyond belief.
    ‘Hi, Daniel!’ Now Emma was waving and making her way over to him. Great.
    Chloe’s plan had been going so well. She’d been effortlessly avoiding Mr
Drop Dead
, but maybe she should have guessed it had all been too easy, that she would have to put her resolve to the test at some point. So she tipped her chin up, smiled and followed Emma towards the bar.
    It was at that point she realised Daniel was with someone—a good-looking blond—so she transferred her gaze to him, offered him her smile instead. The grin he returned said he wasn’t ungrateful for it.
    A dark thundercloud passed across Daniel’s expression and settled there. The skin on the backs of Chloe’s knees started to tingle and the smile on her face set. She didn’t let it drop, though. No need to panic. A quick chat with the two men and she and Emma would be on their way.
    She nodded at him. ‘Hey there, Indiana.’
    A flash of lightning left that thundercloud and zapped her right between the eyebrows.
    She left Emma to gush at Daniel while she turned her attention back to the blond. ‘Who’s your friend?’ she asked, slightly disappointed that there was not even a hint of a tickle at the backs of her knees as she met his appreciative gaze, even though this man was every bit as good-looking as his friend.
    ‘You two know each other?’ the blond askedincredulously. ‘How come you’ve never introduced us before?’ He held out his hand. ‘Alan Harrison,’ he said, enfolding Chloe’s hand in his own, before turning back to Daniel. ‘And you call yourself a mate.’
    ‘You’ve only just got back from Greece,’ Daniel muttered. ‘She started while you were away.’
    Chloe attempted to release her hand, but it seemed Alan wasn’t quite ready to let go of it yet. She smiled coolly. ‘I’m new at the botanical gardens.’
    Alan’s eyes widened. ‘You’re another plant nerd, like us? I’d never have guessed.’
    She flinched inwardly at his words, but her smile grew ever brighter on the surface. ‘Guilty as charged.’ Really guilty. So she’d got a good haircut, learned how to apply liquid eyeliner … Deep inside she was still as much of a plant nerd as she’d ever been.
    Alan rested an elbow on the bar and casually looked her up and down. ‘You really don’t look like one,’ he said, a slightly wolfish glimmer creeping into his eyes.
    Chloe kept her smile fixed. ‘Haven’t you heard?’ She nodded in Daniel’s direction. ‘Thanks to your pal there,
plant nerd
is the new
sexy
.’
    ‘Oh, it really is,’ Emma said in a breathy rush, looking at Daniel.
    Chloe pressed her lips together to stop herself from laughing. Daniel’s expression had darkenedfurther, but there was a hint of panic at the backs of his eyes, one she recognised from the day she’d met him hiding from his silver-haired fan club.
    But then Daniel looked back at her, and that glint of something changed and warmed. Suddenly, she was the one panicking inside.
    She didn’t want him to look at her like that, as if he’d like to …
    She wasn’t going to finish that thought. It was far too X-rated. And far too dangerous.
    ‘What can we get you two ladies to drink?’ Alan asked.
    Chloe tried to speak, tried to tell him that it was okay, that she and Emma were just going to find a quiet table in the corner and chat