CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE – RASMUS

I’m enjoying the back and forth between us.

It feels like this is how it’s supposed to be.

I force myself to ask her on a date whilst we’re both stuck in the car – I have to ask and she has to answer.

“You want to get food?” she asks

“There’s a place I found; I want to see what you think of it.”

“OK” she shrugs “I could eat.”

I turn off the main road toward the manor and circle back on ourselves, back into London.

“Where are we going?”

“Surprise” I grin

She arches an eyebrow “A good surprise?”

“Yes Leda, a good one.” I sigh. I probably deserve that.

She sticks her tongue out at me and I resist the urge to turn and bite it.

***

I pull up on the side of a little street. Leda looks around confused

“Are we still in London?”

“Yep.” I smile at her. “It’s a little off the beaten path...”

“You're not taking me to a local place for local people, are you?”

I laughed and got out of the car. Before I’d gotten round to her side to open the door, she was a