Forever Love at Wildflower Lock (The Wildflower Lock #4)

Chapter 47

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Daisy didn’t want to leave the room, but the spa was beckoning and, just like the rest of the hotel, the experience was sublime. Built in the basement, with red brick walls and a variety of hot tubs and saunas, every little room and pool seemed to have a different scent, with each one more divine than the last.

‘Wow, I didn’t know how much I needed a massage,’ Daisy said as the pair sat in a pool together after their treatments. ‘I don’t think I’ve ever felt that relaxed in my life.’ Every muscle in her body had been scrubbed, moisturised and pummelled. And after a night out camping on the hard ground, it had been just the thing to work out the knots in her back.

‘I know what you mean. I could happily go straight back to bed and not get up till morning,’ Theo replied.

‘That sounds like a good idea to me.’ Daisy grinned. ‘We’ve still got half a bottle of Champagne left. And a couple of strawberries, too.’

‘We can’t spend the entire time in the room, you know,’ Theo said, arching one of his eyebrows as he spoke.

‘Why not?’

‘Well, to start with, I picked this place because of the grounds. We have to at least go for a walk, and we’ve got a reservation for dinner at eight too.’

‘Fine,’ Daisy said, leaning forward in the water, as if she was going to kiss Theo, only to splash water at him instead.

‘Hey! You know I’m not going to let you get away with that, right?’

A moment later, he was chasing Daisy around the pool. The pair laughed and shrieked as they continued to splash about, ducking and diving beneath the water, until eventually Theo caught up with her, scooped her into his arms and kissed her passionately on the lips.

‘You know, I don’t think today could get any better,’ Daisy said when they finally broke apart.

‘I know what you mean,’ Theo replied. ‘Although you’re only saying that because you haven’t seen the maze yet.’

‘There’s a maze?’

‘There is. There’s a maze, peacocks, a lake with swans and geese and even a little church. I thought there were lots of opportunities for photos here, so when we get back to Wildflower Lock, you could do some paintings of the place.’

Daisy looked back at Theo, even more stunned than she had been at the discovery of the maze. ‘You chose this place so there would be lots of things for me to paint?’

‘Is that all right?’

‘It’s better than all right,’ she said. ‘It’s absolutely perfect.’

With her heart the fullest it had ever been, she pushed up on her toes as if she was about to kiss Theo, only when their lips were less than an inch apart, she flung her hands through the water and splashed him once again.

‘Last one out of the maze is the loser!’ she yelled, bolting for the steps out of the pool.