a son with the CEO

lp, for starters. Dylan

he noise from tour

want to live with anyone

marriage—ironic, consider

ironic that, if Nadine

ultimatum, she wou

, and he knew she was seeing someone else. Someone who was prepared to giv

sb

htly less complicated situ

, flaky woman and a tiny baby would be right at the bottom of his list. He had

have time

ut

t Emmy shoulder all the res

nt where it would affect his business decisions and therefore the livelihoods of everyone who worked for

een dumped as a child,

to thi

r down. Couldn’t brea

to find a way of c

hey wouldn’t be living tog

dover. He could do that. OK, so he’d have to delegate more at work, to carve out that extra time, but it was doable. His flat was on a

the futur

sion was eas

sion was eas

fé, and was slightly surp

maybe she’d neve

‘You paid last time,

ank

ned her at the table. ‘If w

need to sort out some gr

s. ‘Obviously. Chil

k. We’ll get a

. ‘I can’t afford t

So that’s

hared equally.

idea was to look at how they could make this work, with the least pain to bot

? ‘Look, I’m going to have

And I’m sure it’s the same for you. It makes sense to pay som

e to clean for a couple of hours a week,’

aying we both

ooking separately. It makes sense to share.’ She s

now how hopeless Pete was—had been, Dylan corrected himself with a jolt—i

t did you

k? He narrowed his eyes at

cky. ‘I learned to cook.

d you won’t get food poisoning.’ He paused as a nast

he said. ‘I shared a hous

ned down the offer of a meal at his best friend’s; h

all the cooki

‘Though I ‘Our deal was that she cooked and I cleaned.’ Emmy s

od it would have to be. Which wasn’t much change from the way he’d been livi

re and

, he’d been just an ordinary workaholic. No commitments—well, almost no commitments, he

f he’d be sharing the care of his godson with a woman who’d always managed to

e to make th

r Tyler when we’re

take

not wi

go back to work until afte

ome mum and look after h

e would’ve wanted us to pu

nn

e, so we’re going to hav

ylan pointed out. ‘We bo

n’t going to happen. No

sses r

, ‘we work flexible hours

ned. ‘I thought you

but you’

e was using the royal ‘we’

. She was trying. And he

g in more than one

ng or an evening

. That had been another

was always in the office

evenings. So, if you’re

care of Tyler; and then yo

I can get on

need to have a

said. ‘But if you’re late

said. ‘But if you’re late

ier, the next day, to giv

e times when I have meet

e’re going to have to be f

ch other whe

woman he’d always disli

f his mother—the sort who’

ice so she could drift off

st to check that this wasn

re was no waking up

o live with you, but I guess the only option is to share the house.’ It d

ve in to Pete and

out the lease on

o the bank about subletti

ffect the