‘Yes, I’ll be there around two thirty, as soon as I’ve finished here.’
Flick nodded and gave her a wave. She moved on to the other tables, admiring the work, and found a table selling jewel-decorated eggs and one selling beautiful paper quilling pictures. She repeated her spiel to them before doubling back to offer the same thing to the person who made monsters and animals out of forks and spoons because she really liked them and they were art even if people like Rose or Ethel might disapprove.
But when she got there she realised Quinn was the person making them.
‘Hello again,’ Flick said.
Quinn looked up and smiled at seeing her. ‘Hello, how are you settling in?’
She thought about everything that had happenedsince she walked through the doors of Waterfall House, that incredible kiss uppermost in her mind, and she tried hard not to blush as she remembered how her body had responded to Luke’s touch.
‘Oh fine,’ she said, vaguely.
But clearly not vaguely enough as Quinn’s face lit up. ‘Fine?’ he said, waggling his eyebrows, clearly bubbling with excitement.
She flushed with embarrassment; he obviously knew. ‘Has he told you?’
‘Told me what?’ Quinn said, the monster he’d been working on clearly forgotten.
‘About the kiss. Did he phone you as soon as I left or something?’
‘I haven’t spoken to him since yesterday. But now I want to know about the kiss.’
‘Shit, you didn’t know? But what was with all the eyebrow waggling?’
‘Because the way you said fine was clearly, most definitely not fine.’
She cursed under her breath.
‘So now I need to know all the details.’
‘There’s nothing to tell. It was a fake kiss.’
‘A fake kiss?’
‘Because Natalia won’t leave him alone and I suggested we pretend to be together to get rid of her and we kissed and…’ she trailed off.
Quinn smiled gently with understanding. ‘And the kiss was a lot more than fake and now the two of you are second-guessing everything and wondering if theother felt it too?’
She sighed. ‘Something like that. Well for my part.’
‘I don’t presume to know what you or Luke are feeling but I think trusting your heart is probably a good place to start.’
Flick decided to change the subject as it didn’t seem right discussing this with Quinn when she hadn’t discussed it with Luke.
‘I’m on the hunt for new artists who might want to join us up on Waterfall Hill and I think you have exactly what we’re looking for.’
She gave him her spiel and he listened but didn’t ask the same questions that the others had asked. ‘Who else have you spoken to about this?’
‘So far, Suki who does the paper quilling pictures, Max who does the jewelled eggs and Alex who does the paper sculptures. They’re all coming to have a look this afternoon.’
‘Well I think I better come and look too. If nothing else, I might need to keep an eye on you two love birds.’
‘I’m regretting inviting you now.’
‘Why, I’ll be in your corner.’
‘What about Luke?’
