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‘Thank heavens for that’ He gave the sardonic sht you’d forgotten me’

Lexi alet hiet her own name True, he wasn’t on her mind 24/7 the way he used to be when they’d first split Before she had decided to take herself in hand She’d known she would never recover if she continued to obsess about hiiven herself had carried her through the worst It got her through those bleak, dark days when she had missed him so much that it had felt as if someone had ripped her heart out and crushed it

But she had recovered because people always recovered, even if at the tiht they would And she had survived worse things than a e which should never have happened in the first place

‘You’re not an easy et, Xenon,’ she said, and then added as an afterthought, ‘More’s the pity’

He laughed then but it sounded strange Maybe she just wasn’t used to the sound ofup on the doorstep of her cottage and staring at her with such a disturbing sense of entitlement

His blue eyes bored into her ‘Aren’t you going to invite me in?’

So and Lexi felt a flicker of foreboding ‘Is there any point?’

‘You’re not even a bit curious to discover why I’lance into the cosy interior of her cottage ‘Why I’ve driven all the way down froodforsaken little place you’ve chosen to live in?’

‘I iine it must be for your benefit and yours alone,’ she answered ‘And if that’s the case, then I’ to say to you that hasn’t already been said’

‘I wouldn’t speak too soon if I were you, Lex’

‘Veiled threats won’t work, Xenon’ She gave hiive me a divorce and we seeot the papers with you, it’s going to have to be hello and goodbye I’m sorry if you’ve had a wasted journey but’