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‘Oh, Miss Rafferty, there’s been a change to your afternoon appointment The one with the web developer?’

‘Has he postponed?’

Up to now Polly had left all the details about the possible neebsite with Gabe, but she wanted to check so the final recommendation

Finding a mutually convenient date had been problematic—and now he couldn’t make it? She hoped this wasn’t a portent of his professional reliability

‘He’s stuck in Paris and asked if you wouldthere instead?’

‘To Paris?’ Polly echoed ‘That’s’

‘Less ti a pile of papers onto the desk ‘I’ve booked you onto the noon Eurostar so a taxi will be here to take you to St Pancras for eleven A car will collect you at the other end’

Rachel looked a little anxious ‘I have done the right thing, haven’t I? It’s just you told me to use my initiativea final decision’

‘No, you did right As you say it’s quicker than Edinburgh’ Polly scooped up the pile of papers, including her passport, she kept it at work for just this reason, and retreated into her office

Sorry, MuDemystify Paris as part of her new start

Baby steps

It was so comfortable in Business Class that Polly realised with a jump that she had almost nodded off I think I preferred the nausea to the tiredness, she thought as she jolted back to awareness when the train braked, the papers still unread on the table in front of her, her laptop reverted to sleep mode There were tily, desperate to stretch out and just close her eyes

Until she remembered Gabe sprawled out The fir up his back

The couch seemed a lot less safe then

Polly pulled her h to do without daydrea her way around a totally strange city Paris h but it felt a lot more alien

Luckily she didn’t have to think or organise herself at all; a driver aiting for her as she stepped out of the bustling, light-filled Gare du Nord station with its i Gothic façade and, before she had a chance to take in the fact she was actually in Paris at last, he had pulled away into the heavy traffic