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  Jack’s handsome face turned serious.

  ‘Oh God, Mae, I can’t bear to think of how I must have made you suffer. I’m so sorry for being so blind and so bloody selfish. But rest assured that we’ll face everything together from now on. We’ll discuss everything and work everything out in a sensible and practical way. But I need you, Mae. Can you ever forgive me?’

  ‘There’s only one way I can forgive you, Jack.’

  ‘What’s that?’ Jack asked anxiously.

  ‘If I can go on loving you the same as I’ve always done.’

  ‘Oh Mae.’ He gathered her up in his arms. Then he let her go and lifted a glass of wine from the nearest table.

  ‘Lift your glasses, everybody,’ he called out to the gathering of friends and neighbours, all happily chatting to each other and crunching on crisps, ‘and drink to love and marriage and everlasting happiness.’

  Mae lifted her glass too and smiled at Jack.

  ‘To love and marriage and everlasting happiness.’

  And everyone gave a resounding cheer of joy that hit the rafters.

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  by Margaret Thomson Davis

  THE BREADMAKERS

  THE NEW BREADMAKERS

  THE CLYDESIDERS TRILOGY

  THE TOBACCO LORDS TRILOGY

  A DARKENING OF THE HEART

  THE DARK SIDE OF PLEASURE

  BURNING AMBITION

  THE GLASGOW BELLE

  LIGHT & DARK

  WRITE FROM THE HEART

  A DEADLY DECEPTION

  GOODMANS OF GLASSFORD STREET

  RED ALERT

  DOUBLE DANGER

  COPYRIGHT

  First published 2010

  by Black & White Publishing Ltd

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  This electronic edition published in 2013

  ISBN: 978 1 84502 653 0 in EPub format

  ISBN: 978 1 84502 654 7 in Mobipocket format

  ISBN: 978 1 84502 339 3 in paperback format

  Copyright © Margaret Thomson Davis 2010

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