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Mark asked, his voice sounded like granite scraping against tiling.
“I’ll have the Mediterranean salad. You know I’m on a diet,” she said decisively as she closed her menu. She was not poised enough to lean over Mark to examine his menu.
“What about drinks?” Dominic asked. “Vera?”
“Tonic water,” she answered.
“That’s not a drink,” Dominic said, boldly putting his arm around her and resting his hand on her waist. “That’s an ingredient for a drink.”
“I like it,” Helen said, looking up into Dominic’s eyes and forcing the two of them into an intimate invisible bubble. “It’s sweet,” she breathed.
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