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Suddenlyso well

"… if you’re too cowardly to tell s yourself, then maybe it’s better for both of us if we si here I should have written it all down before I began

"… if we just call it a day Or perhaps that’s what you think you’ve already done," I finish, breathing hard

"Becky?" Suddenly Luke’s deep voice is into sound dignified

"What is all this gibberish you’re spouting on ibberish!" I reply indignantly "It’s the truth!"

" ‘If you’re single, then I’?"

"I was talking about you! And the fact that you’ve told the whole world you’re single"

"I’ve done what?" says Luke, sounding amused "When did I do that?"

"It’s in Tatler!" I say furiously "This azine and flip it open "Britain’s top movers and shakers Number thirty-four, Luke Brandon"

"Oh, for God’s sake," says Luke "That thing"

"Yes, that thing!" I exclaile How do you think it felt for le?"

"It quotes me, does it?"

"Well… no," I say after a pause "It doesn’t exactly quote you But I mean, they must have phoned you up and asked you--"

"They did phone me up and ask me," he says "And I said no co to think clearly OK, so le -- but I’m not at all sure I like "no co really badly?

"Why did you say no co out witha little weary, "think about it Do you want our private life splashed all over the media?"

"Of course not" I twist my hands into a complicated knot "Of course not But you…" I stop

"What?"

"You told theout with Sacha," I say in a sirlfriend