Well, he hadn’t gone for that at all. Saints, he’d snatched back his hand as quick as if he’d been touching hot coals; and retreated behind his notebook, as if it wasn’t far, far too late for a poor constable to still be working.
It was far too late for Ester’s brain to be working, at any rate. So she didn’t have an ounce of focus required to make up a story about the time and place she had last seen her ‘missing purse’. So she just kept grinning indolently at him, because she was, quite simply, off her face.
“When did you get so handsome, love?” She drawled aloud in turn, eyeing his jawline with feeling. “Like a statue of Adonis come to life.” She ought to see if he might model – oh, yes, that was a spectacular idea: her artist friends would be wild for him.
It was far too late for Ester’s brain to be working, at any rate. So she didn’t have an ounce of focus required to make up a story about the time and place she had last seen her ‘missing purse’. So she just kept grinning indolently at him, because she was, quite simply, off her face.
“When did you get so handsome, love?” She drawled aloud in turn, eyeing his jawline with feeling. “Like a statue of Adonis come to life.” She ought to see if he might model – oh, yes, that was a spectacular idea: her artist friends would be wild for him.
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