AN UNEXPECTED GIFT

Katie scanned the barcodes on the wrapping paper, gift tag and the gorgeous blue-and-green silk scarf, and smiled at the man buying them.

‘Must be for someone special,’ she said, as she wrapped the scarf in tissue paper and placed it in one of the gift shop’s elegant bags.

‘It is,’ he said with a delectably slow smile. No wonder he was buying such a lovely present for some lucky girl – he must have hundreds of girls chasing after him. And it wasn’t just his smile – the rest of him was good-looking, too. He was tall with chocolate-brown eyes and curly hair.

This wasn’t a man who’d be single for long, she imagined. And, apparently, not the sort of man to dash out and buy any old thing, either. She’d been watching him as he examined all their scarves before finally settling on one.

There was often a flurry of boyfriends and husbands who dashed into the shop two minutes before it closed, desperately grabbing the first greetings