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‘Silly boy I’ve told him a hundred times that I’m a corporate lawyer! And we shall have to discuss Do your football match, I’m afraid We’re very busy over the Christmas period, and Nanny won’t be around for three days, so I shall be hard-pressed to spare the time to take him anywhere’

Megan was busy feeling sorry for poor Nanny, who had clearly been inconsiderate enough to ask for time off over Christmas, when she are that they had been joined by soant lawyer had stopped inof a san to whoever was standing behind her

‘Alessandro, darling So good of you I’m absolutely parched’

Alessandro!

The naan into a tailspin Of course there was more than one Alessandro in the world! It was a co to hear that na about him only minutes earlier

She turned around, and the unexpected rushed towards her like a freight train at full speed, taking her breath away Because there he was Alessandro Caretti Her Alessandro Standing in front of her A spectre from the past Seven years separated memory from reality, but he had rely good-looking Yes, a little older now, and his face was harsher, , but this was theand still cropped up in her thoughts like a virus lying dor away

She had never seen hio he had worn jeans and sweatshirts He earing a suit now, a charcoal-grey suit, and, yes, a white shirt—so soed

Megan could feel the blood rushing into her face, and it was a job to keep steady, to hold out her hand politely and wonder if he would even recognise her Her hair was shorter now, but still as uncontrollable as it always had been Everything else was the same

She was shaking when she felt the brief touch of his hand as she was introduced

What was he doing here? Was he Dominic’s father? But, no Fro so a suit and engaged to the perfect woo when he had broken up with her

He didn’t appear to recognise her as he held out the glass of wine to his fiancée, eli his back on her