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Francesca didn’t reply She stalked into the kitchen, looked at the mushroom omelette with distaste and made herself eat some of it while she waited for the kettle to boil

When he sat opposite her, she resisted the temptation to tuck her knees to one side in case she touched hier three years ago and yet now she couldn’t bear to think of herself reacting to any inadvertent physical contact

‘I confess I was curious to ’

Francesca shrugged and pushed her plate to one side ‘What you were or weren’t expecting is none of my business’ Shethat she had rear, just a level teaspoon ‘There’s no need for you to apologise about your fiancée It’s easy to get a bit light-headed if you drink wine at that hour of the evening, before there’s any food in your stomach Was she pleased hat Jack and I had in es are very difficult to accommodate’

Angelo watched as she busied herself, tidying away things fro anything to avoid looking at hi but what he wanted to talk about—her partner Jack was no ex-ed, and that had got to hied him that this woman could still affect him after all these absent years and after the way she had walked away from their relationship

He had dropped Georgina off, returned to his flat, seh and experienced enough not to allow his eh, he had found hi in that address on the business card into the Satellite Navigation finder in his car, driving to her house

‘After yearsworld, I was a little surprised to find that your lover is…so…shall we say unapologetically lacking in polish?’

Francesca opened her mouth to refute the assumption that Jack was her lover, and shut it

‘Maybe I find it refreshing to be with so or how much money they earn’

‘Are you i that I was?’

‘I’iven her the tiirl in a super that he had ended up with a woree would be a credit to him?

‘How long have you known him?’

‘A while’

‘A while being…?’

‘Being none of your business, Angelo In fact, my life is none of your business I can’t take away the fact that ere once an iteainst the sink, arms folded, every muscle tense

‘Which doesn’t mean that I don’t still have your interests at heart’ He liked the sound of that Liked the way it her realnanimity

Francesca snorted with open disbelief ‘And how do you work that one out, Angelo? How have you gone fro about my personal welfare?’

‘I ads out into the open I aelo drawled ‘But since then I’ve realised that I owe it to you to be honest and I honestly cannot see what you find sti about him’

‘And that’s why you ca-hearted and you just wanted to express concern about my choice of partner?’ She looked at hi the way he had come into her house and taken it over ‘I love Jack,’ she said truthfully ‘We work together and we get along well’ She shrugged ‘It doesn’t botherin polish, as you put it Actually, I think it’s pretty superficial to judge someone on their appearance It’s what’s underneath that counts But I don’t suppose you would agree with that’ She knew that this was a pointless conversation She knew that she should be as polite but as distant as she could be with him, remind herself that he was a man due to behim after all this time out of the blue had turned her world upside down and she could feel herself hurtling towards an arguument