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wasn’t looking for a new man, she wasn’t able to truly trust again and she barely knew Edward. She had told herself it was just an infatuation, something drawing her to him with no explanation and it was something that she should ignore. But she couldn’t and she just kept looking for him. She didn’t know how to find him otherwise, having thrown away the pamphlet in a fit of determination to put him out of her mind. She knew his name but that was it. Even though he had mentioned the names of his company she had been so overwhelmed by his very presence that it had completely left her mind.
    She looked around once more, heading towards the top outdoor deck and over the railing. By this point the cruise ship had finally made its way in to port and docked. People were scrambling around, hurrying this way and that as they made their way with determination to their destination. Then she spotted him at last and her heart dropped with disappointment. It was
     
    Edward, on the dock surrounded by people. He was climbing in to a taxi, luggage in hand. She would never see him again.
     
    Weeks passed slowly and still Suzanne couldn’t get the memory of Edward out of her mind. The smallest thing would remind her of him and she couldn’t help but kick herself.
    It didn’t help that she was still working on a series of events for the cruise company, many of them based on ideas that she had on the very day that she first saw Edward giving his lecture. Even writing copy for the events held on board the ships set her memories racing. She wasn’t getting much sleep, the few hours that she managed to get were often plagued by dreams of Edward and her together in bed. She had confided in friends within days of returning and at first they had been intrigued but they had slowly gotten fed up with hearing her moaning about this amazing man.
    “For god’s sake Suzie,” cried Claire, her best friend, one evening. “You barely knew the guy and you’re pining for him worse than you ever pined for He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named. And you were married to HIM!”
    “I can’t help it,” Suzanne mumbled, staring at the glass of wine in front of her. “There’s just something about him. I’ve tried to forget him, you know I have. I even went on that date with what’s-his-face to try and forget about him.”
    “And you called him Edward halfway through the date,” Claire pointed out. “Suzie, you know nothing about this guy apart from that he’s gorgeous and he’s leaving his wife. That isn’t a good sign. You have to forget about him!”
    “I know,” Suzanne cried, dropping her head into her hands, “I know and I’m trying. I’m trying so hard.”
    “I know you are,” Claire said, wrapping an arm around her friend’s shoulder. “And I can’t tell you how glad I am that you’re actually interested in someone new but this pining is just too much.”
    Suzanne ran through that conversation in her mind every time she found it drifting to the few scant memories of Edward that remained in her head. She congratulated herself every time she spent at least an hour not thinking of him and slowly the memories started to fade.
    Then one day her email pinged, a new message was in her inbox and she opened it up to look. She didn’t recognise the address, the company name was none that immediately sprung to mind. She ran a virus scan and when it came up clean she finally clicked on it to open. It was short and to the point.
     
    Hi S. - From E.
     
    She knew instantly that it was from Edward and that he must be feeling the same way towards her that she was feeling towards him.
     

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    CHAPTER 2

 
     
     
     
     
     
    Suzanne didn’t respond to the email. She just sat there, staring at it in disbelief after first reading it. She shook her head, unable to believe that he had actually emailed her, and closed the inbox, deciding that it must be a hallucination brought on by too much thinking