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Francesca was treated to the click of so a phone call before she had a chance to speak and, with a little sigh of resignation, she turned to Jack, who had been sitting at the kitchen table, listening in on the phone call

‘It won’t be as bad as you think,’ was the first thing he said when he saw her face

Francesca looked at hih about the situation to appreciate the aardness of it, but he knew nothing of the depth of feeling she had carried around with her for years, the knowledge of love lost for reasons beyond her control

‘No, it’ll be worse I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets us there so that he can shake his head at e suggest and conclude that we’re not up to scratch for the job’

‘That would make him a very bitter man’

‘You’ve got it’ And it was a situation that never should have arisen She should never have met him, should never have fallen in love with him Theoretically, she should have fallen in love with the round, sa left behind, but still…

The beauty queen of the local cohest truancy rate in the country should have ended up with the wild, reckless but irresistibly handsome bad-boy heartthrob, but fate had had other plans in store Fate had decided to throw friendship into the cauldron, and friends they had beco else

‘Must have been a shock, seeing you,’ Jack said with a wicked grin ‘Maybe he’s still got the hots for you’

‘Oh, please That was years ago No, what he wants is to see o and Angelo is not the sort ofturned down by a woman’

‘We won’t fail, Ellie’

‘He calls , rejected hiin a new life with you’

‘Which is kind of true, in a way’

‘But not in the way he thinks He thinks that we’re an item’

‘And htfully He leaned forward and rested both elbows on the table ‘Iif he thinks that I’m on the scene, will he?’