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‘There’s no point, Megan’

‘No point? No point? How can you say that, Alessandro? We’ve practically lived together for the better part of a year! How can you say that there’s no point in trying to stay together? I…we…Alessandro, I love you I really do You’re the guy I gave myself to…you kno much that meant to me…’

Alessandro flushed darkly ‘And I cherish that gift’

He said it as though their relationship had already been consigned to the memory box

‘Then tell me that you won’t walk away’

‘I…I can’t say that, Megan’ He eesture with a look of distaste ‘This…this was a chapter in an, and it’s time for me to move on with the book’

‘What you’re saying is that I’s come to an end’

‘All things do coan Here with your fa job out in the country You know you hate the city You’ve always said that You told h in the first place was because your cousin had dragged you there, and that the only reason you kept co, then London is in a league of its own’

‘You’re twisting everything I said to you! My life could be anywhere with you!’

‘No’

He al fe females had always irritated the hell out of him But she wasn’t a crier

‘You’re a country girl at heart, Megan, and you would be miserable if I—or anyone else, for that matter—removed you from the open fields you enjoy That aside…’ He paused, because he wanted to be completely honest with her That much she deserved ‘This step of my journey I must take alone I’m about to devote myself to my career I literally wouldn’t have time to spend…’

‘…taking care of a hopeless country buan finished for him