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Francesca cleared her throat and tried to find a way out of the thick fog of guilt engulfing her

‘What…what can I do for you?’

’What can you do for me?’

‘Look, I think I knohy you’ve come here…’

‘I’ly ‘I bet that bastard ca here just as soon as he could’

Silence, Francesca thought, was the best for She deserved every bit of the attack about to be launched at her

‘I should never have considered you for the job Never! I told Angelo that you were nothing but a two-bit coht I would be obliging and go along with giving you a fair try Didn’t know then what I kno, though, did I? And you, you…you nobody…didn’t see fit to fill me in, did you?’

Francesca remained in ht If she could have turned back the hands of tireed to cook dinner for hireed to let him into her house in the first place If, if, if…

‘Well, if you and Angelo think that he can break off the engage hands, while I’ a complete idiot in front of ina’s porcelain skin was mottled with fury

‘He’s broken off the engagement?’ Francesca asked weakly Oh, dear Lord Why? She felt her legs on the verge of giving way and decided that sitting downto the floor in a heap would add to her mortification and, aside froh they could inflict severe dae ielded by a tiny furious blonde

‘Perhaps we ought to sit down,’ she said and left Georgina no option by heading straight into the sitting room