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‘I wasn’t worrying’

‘Or think about’

‘I wasn’t thinking about it either’

‘Because it’s no longer true,’ Maribel inforht back out of his handsoen’s house’

His superb bone structure tightened beneath his bronzed skin ‘Why?’

Over two years of pent-up hostility and hurt were suddenly rising up inside Maribel in an unfettered overflow of feelings ‘You remember you asked for breakfast? There was no food in the house, so I—fool that I was—I went out to buy some’

Leonidas, who had long found his recollections of that sah to ensure he simply buried theo to shop? Africa?’

‘Somewhere rather more convenient I only drove down the road, but as I turned into the supermarket a car ran into the back of mine I ended up in hospital with concussion’

Leonidas studied her in raw disbelief ‘Are you saying that you were involved in a car accident that ?’

Maribel nodded confirmation

‘Why the hell didn’t you phone me?’

‘By the tih and had access to a phone you had already left Ien’s house I took htly, her hands clasped together ‘And it cured ht as well have died for all the interest you had in what had happened to me that day! You didn’t even bother to call me’

Leonidas was still stuck in stunned mode ‘You were hurt…in hospital?’

‘Yes, until the following ’