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The Couple on the Airstrip


Elaine stood near the large glass window overlooking the tarmac at Heathrow.

"Here." Severus handed her a white to-go cup of fragrant coffee.

She accepted it with a smile, angling it towards Severus's cup as though they were clinking champagne glasses. "To Paris," she said.

He smiled, a slow, sensual curve of his full bottom lip. "To Paris."

"Have you ever been to the 'City of Light' before?"

He nodded slightly. "A time or two—always on business."

"I want to do it all—a boat trip on the Seine, Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower, the Louvre—" Elaine sighed dreamily.


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