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sorry for any mistakes.

CHAPTER 36

Zoe paced the landing; once again holding tightly onto the banister as she checked to see that max wasn't listening to her and Linda's conversation or he would freak out and run a mile.

"What are you going to do?" Linda was only asking a realistic question but it still distracted Zoe from what she was thinking.

"We were students, it hardly mattered" Zoe laughed hoping that Linda would join in letting them both agree that the rule and promise they had made had long expired.

"Yes, it bloody mattered!" Linda almost shouted earning a look from zoe showing her that max was still downstairs "if a man ever got more than twelve then you're have to ask them to marry you in the next leap year" Linda reminded zoe of their agreement

"Linda, you're taking the piss!" Zoe swore as she clasped backward into her soft bed laughing "I have never had to ever bloody click my fingers for a man never mind get down on one knee!"

"Well, it's time to change" Linda suggested as she lay down beside Zoe

"Stuff the rules!" zoe stood up as she reapplied her lipstick in the mirror

"Yon disobeyed the rule with nick, and look how that ended" Linda pointed out

"Even if max asked to marry me, I would find it hard not to laugh in his face" Zoe admitted to Linda

"And your answer would be...?"

"no" zoe spoke before Linda had fully finished her sentence "unlike you I wouldn't just agree because of something stupid when we were students, it might as well be arranged marriage!"

"Fine!" Linda almost shouted as she closed the door of Zoe's bedroom behind her "but on your wedding day I am going to say I told you so"

"You love him, you know I'm right so don't let your stupid pride get in the way of telling him that"

Zoe rolled her eyes, it was lucky she had even married nick, she wasn't the marrying type!

"What's going on? " asked max as Zoe practically ran down the stairs

"We're late" Zoe gabbed max the wrist pulling him behind her and slamming the door

"What was that for?" max rubbed his wrist when they were safely in Zoe's car "you really hurt me"

"We are running five minutes late and in case you haven't remembered that you are wanted in 'Mrs. Beauchamp's' office first thing" Zoe smiled as she saw the shocked look on max's face

"But it's your day off" max reminded Zoe, it was supposed to be his day off too but of Couse 'Mrs. Beauchamp' had other plans

"Yes, but you only got a half day because of me and you know that I can't stay away from the place five minute" Zoe speeded off, avoiding wasting any more time.

Once at the ED Zoe and max were careful no one seen them as they got out of Zoe's car and made their way to the entrance.

"Do I not get a kiss?" max cheekily asked as Zoe waited for him to go in five minutes before her

Zoe looked left and right before sneakily pulling max around a corner and kissing him briefly.

Max walked into the ED with a smile on his face and as Zoe said, she walked in exactly five minutes later heading straight to Charlie who was standing at reception.

"I should have known that with him here, you wouldn't be far behind" Charlie didn't even have to see to know that Zoe was standing beside him

"I Just came in to see how max gets on" zoe told Charlie "I could kill ash, first it was all 'me and you are a team' and now he is one of Connie's minions"

"I suppose you could say that" Charlie laughed, shifting some files about

"I heard that the guy who couldn't keep his hands off you has ended up in Mrs. Beauchamp's office" guy self almost publically announced as he appeared beside Zoe

But will guy self reveal to the ED, who it is in Connie's office?