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‘There’ Leo deposited her gently on the squashy sofa in the sitting roo down at her ‘Ordeal over’ He wasn’t sure whether to be aruntled at her frantic efforts to bolt

‘It wasn’t an ordeal,’ Heather told hi position ‘I was—I was just concerned for you…’ Her heartbeat should have been returning to normal, but it wasn’t

‘Concerned?’

‘I’htest person in the world’ She spelled it out for hiet back into sensible, protective mode

Leo sat on the sofa and she ied position, her hands resting lightly on her knees

‘I have no idea what you’re talking about’

‘It doesn’t matter’

‘You do that’

‘What?’

‘Introduce a topic and then suddenly decide to back off before you can explain what you’re talking about’

‘There’s nothing to explain’ She gave a careless shrug and linked her fingers together ‘I just think that caveestures like that are probably better done with someone skinnier than me Probably with one of those women who fall over themselves to be in your company’

Leo, well skilled in the ways of wo expedition from a mile away She was curious about him, wanted to know more, but was reluctant to fran

‘I thought women liked the caveman approach’

‘Not when it can lead to personal injury’

‘Who on earth ever told you that you were…?

‘Fat?’ Heather supplied for hi a few pounds? No one’

‘No one Well, you can tell no one that he ay off-target You are neither fat nor are you overweight And as for all those women who fall over themselves to be in my cohtly, as if stilling to hear soht with satisfaction, was the sound of a woman as sexually interested in a man ‘They do tend to be on the skinny side,’ he ads

‘I knew it’

‘One s about me?’

‘Why is it that men with lots of h they would have difficulty keeping upright in a strong wind? Iattractive about a hu who doesn’t eat?’

Leo laughed, and when he was finished laughing he looked at her and shook his head, as if a little dazed by the wo opposite him on the sofa

‘No, there’s absolutely nothing attractive about a woman who doesn’t eat, and I have to admit that I’ve dated a lot of those’

‘Brainless biuiltily aware that she was being as intrusive with him as he had been with her

‘Brainless bimbos? No, definitely not that’