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‘Victoria’s been swept off her feet by your coach chap, who’s taken her and Dominic to some coffee bar round the corner to discuss football lessons’

‘Robbie?’ Megan paused, and then burst out laughing

‘What’s so funny?’ Alessandro said with a tight se of soh with hied to persuade Victoria out of her tightly allotted timetable?

‘You wouldn’t get it’ Megan brushed past hiue of a coach, who had obviously char with tradition and taking time out

‘I haven’t lost my sense of humour,’ Alessandro told her with irritation

‘I’ised insincerely ‘Is that what you thought? No, I was just thinking about Robbie, that’s all He always es to put a smile on my face’

‘Does he, now?’

‘I’ for the bus stop You’recold and ith me, but I don’t suppose you do public transport these days?’

‘Give me five minutes’

‘Give you five minutes to do what?’

‘To explain to Victoria that I’ to see you home, and to tell my driver to wait for both of them’

‘No!’ Megan stood with her hands on her hips, her football kit du to do, Alessandro’

Her heart was thu inside her He was so tall, so dominant, and her head was so full ofto stand her ground—because what gave hiht to swan into her life after seven years and turn it upside down?

‘We’ve had our little chat I don’t kno much clearer I can be when I tell you that I don’t want you in o, but I’ in co to talk about! You’re not ers behind her back ‘…I have no idea what I ever saw in you in the first place’