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The taxi dropped her off first They lived within blocks of one another and, in fact, had, at points, debated the wisdo a house, but had both backed away fro to live with Jack’s convoluted personal life and he, she suspected, did not want to run the risk of having her lecture him on his sloppy habits So he continued to pay the rent on his property and she continued to pay her sh they saw one another daily

The first thing Francesca did was to get rid of her suit, which she hung back up in her wardrobe, and have a shower Then she slipped into some old jeans and an even older tee shirt and went into the kitchen toworld hadhabits and the fact that she dealt with food every day hadfor herself

She was sitting down in front of a

This, she thought with irritation, was exactly when a butler would have been useful Jeeves, just tell Jack that I’ with him to the pub for a quick drink

Instead, she padded across to the front door and opened it just enough of a crack to signal to Jack that she wasn’t going out

It wasn’t Jack

‘Angelo! What are you doing here?’ The chain on the door remained in place and she looked at him warily

‘Have I come at a bad time?’

‘Inconvenient I’ my dinner’

‘I thought I ise on behalf of ainst the door so that if she decided to close it she would find herself engaging in an undignified struggle

‘Jack’s not here,’ Francesca told him reluctantly ‘And if you lean any harder on this door you’re going to break it’

‘That’s the problem these days I to let me in?’