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‘Angelo…’

‘You’re not scared, are you, Francesca? Because you’ll be in contact with me?’

‘No, of course not!’

‘Good In that case, I will be in touch I have your number’ He smiled but his eyes ree, your big opportunity to work on a slightly larger scale than you have been accustomed to in the past…’

‘Too large a scale!’ she inserted quickly

‘You should have thought about that before you sent in your tender’

‘I wouldn’t want to let you and your fiancée down’

‘Believeback and she re at the table, barely aware of the waitress co with change After the initial shock of seeing hione into autoh she wasn’t on the verge of hysteria

Now that he had gone she felt as though she had been put through a wringer She knew that she had never ed to exorcise his memory, but she had not been prepared for just how much he still affected her Every part of her body was stretched to breaking-point and there would be more to come More contact with hied to leave behind There was nothing she could do about it She didn’t need the job but she couldn’t afford to lose clients He had caught her neatly in a trap and all she could do was get through it without tooinflicted on her in the process

CHAPTER THREE

ANGELO tis He waited just long enough for her to stew but not so long that she had time to think up any flimsy excuses to back out, because now that he had seen her he knew that, in the deepest recesses of his mind, she had remained unfinished business

He pushed himself back from his desk and inclined his chair so that he could stretch out his long legs in front of hi act with Georgina who, after her initial diso with an unknown act, had been ready to e her that he would be personally involved in the process, he had met with a brick wall of understandable incomprehension

‘It’s not necessary,’ Georgina had complained ‘Mummy and I—’