I nodded. Davis gave me the ick so Jake had nothing to worry about there. But that didn’t mean that he wasn’t right about Jake and how he was with women. Not to mention the fact we did work closely together. This burgeoning attraction between the two of us was complicated. ‘I suppose he did make me curious about you and past relationships…’

‘I’m curious about you and yours too,’ he replied. ‘We have so much time to talk about all that. Do we really want to talk about the past now? When we have all this…’ He gestured with his free hand at the city around us.

I looked ahead at the skyscrapers glistening in the summer sun and knew that he was right. We had limited time here, after all. ‘Okay then, what did you have in mind?’

We looked at one another and I realised that had come out far more suggestively than I had planned. We giggled like we were teenagers or something, no mean feat considering I was in my twenties and he was in his thirties, but there was something about us being hand in hand on the bridge after an incredible kiss that suddenly made me feel giddy.

‘Race you to the next bit,’ I said, pointing to the archway ahead. ‘Winner chooses what we do next.’

Jake looked at me for a moment like I was crazy, and maybe I kind of was right now, but then he grinned. ‘Deal.’ He dropped my hand and took off unexpectedly.

‘Cheater!’ I yelled and tore after him.

People watched us with a mixture of amusement and annoyance as we raced together along the bridge. My hair swept out behind me in the breeze as I tried to catch up with Jake’s long legs. We were both laughing as we ran towards the archway of the Manhattan Tower. I honestly couldn’t remember the last time I had run for anything other than a Tube train. It was kind of exhilarating, even though I was even more breathless than I’d been when we kissed. Jake glanced back at me and grinned like he was having just as much fun. I knew I wouldn’t catch him, but I didn’t give up and kept running until I joined him by the archway.

Jake clutched the rail as I skidded to a halt in front of him and tried to inhale as much air into my lungs as possible. ‘That probably wasn’t a fair contest given our height difference.’

‘And my lack of any exercise beside walking to work in the mornings.’ I tilted my head and squinted through the sunshine at him. ‘I suppose you have a personal trainer and go to the gym every day?’