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“Just take my hand,” she said, holding one out to him, a hot chocolate clasped firmly in the other.
“Take my whole life too,” he murmured idly as he gladly enveloped her slender digits within his own.
“Pardon?”
Strike smiled broadly as Robin stepped from the low edge of the stone fountain she'd been wistfully traversing into his waiting embrace.
Wrapping an arm about her waist, he swayed them from side to side for a moment, a laugh escaping her lips, before he lowered his head to hers.
“For I can't help,” he sang softly, “falling in love with you.”