149 CHAPTER 17
Sydney Airport, Australia, the present day‘What are you doing here?’ Susan said, eyes and smile wide when Nick tapped her on the shoulder from behind as she queued at the Business Class check-in counter for the Qantas flight to Johannesburg.
‘I’ve decided to come to South Africa,’ he said.
‘You’re crazy.’
‘For once in my life, yes.’ He realised it had been too long since he had done anything spontaneous. Following Susan to Africa was gold standard flying by the seat of his pants. He smiled to himself.
She gave him a light punch on the arm. ‘You know, that note of yours that you left next to me on the bed this morning was nice, promising you’d see me again some time soon, but it still felt a bit like you were sneaking out on me while I was sleeping.’
‘I wanted to surpri
