He shook his head, riled by her over-the-top alarm. ‘No. We didn’t. You tried to kiss me, and I stopped you. You passed out on your bed—alone—and I slept on your sofa.’
‘I tried to kiss you?’ She looked even more horrified by this. ‘Oh, God, I must have been really drunk.’
‘Gee, thanks.’
She flushed and held up an apologetic hand. ‘I just mean I wouldn’t normally do something like that. You’re a lovely guy, but I think we can safely say we’d never naturally date. We’d make a very odd couple.’
‘Very odd,’ he said, though he felt a strange reluctance about agreeing with her. They weren’t that dissimilar, not really. His sister never would have been friends with Flora if she hadn’t seen the good in her.
Not that he was interested in her in a romantic way, of course. The way he’d instinctively responded to her when she’d kissed him had been a shock, sure, but she was right—they would never work as a couple. He’d only reacted like that because he’d been missing human contact recently.
‘Hey, speaking of dating,’ Flora went on, pulling her robe more tightly around her body, ‘I meant to say last night—before I messed up by being really rude to you about your clothes and—’ she paused as a sheepish look flashed across her face ‘—the other things.’ She produced a strange sort of grimacing grin, clearly hoping that would suffice as an apology.
‘I have a friend who lives just outside Bath. I think you’d really get on with her,’ she went on quickly before he could get a word in. ‘She’s big into music—she plays the harp, I think.’ She flapped her hand as if annoyed with her less than perfect memory. ‘Anyway, I met up with her for a coffee the other day—we hadn’t seen each other since school—and she’s single at the moment. I mentioned you to her and she seemed really interested in meeting you.’
His heart sank. ‘You’re trying to set me up on a blind date?’
‘Sure, why not? Isn’t that how most people meet their partners these days? Internet dating or through a friend of a friend?’
‘I don’t think so, Flora.’
Folding her arms, she fixed him with a concerned stare. ‘Well, I think you should put yourself out there again. Didn’t you say yesterday that you’d promised Amy you’d get on with your life and not mope about?’
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