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What about Seb?” Cressida Wright’s best friend Lauren lowered her sunglasses as she posed the question, taking a pointed look across the sun loungers and out towards the pool where Sebastian Brown swam. Lauren and Cressida had been talking about Cressida’s ongoing dating drought. Cressida missed, she explained wistfully, the butterflies in the early days of seeing someone and the way life can suddenly seem lighter and brighter when love is in the air.
“Hope,” Cressida concluded. “Frisson! Possibility! I feel like I’ve been born anew after spending all year locked away in that pokey flat, all on my own. I’m ready to date again. I need to. I’m not getting any younger. I feel like an old maid.”
Seb completed his lengths and pulled himself up at the end closest to them to sit, catching his breath. Thick droplets of water rolled down his chiselled back as
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