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‘She has her own ex-boyfriends,’ Alessandro coularly sees one of the deal’

‘I can’t believe you’re so…civilised…about your fiancée having a relationship with an ex, Alessandro My, my, my…what’s happened to all that Italian possessiveness? I et that you blew a fuse every ti to one of my male friends from university’

‘Like you said, Megan, an unhealthy place How long have you known this football-coach character, anyway? Was he the reason you decided to move down to London? I suspected that a man must have been involved’

‘I would never let a an told him scornfully If he wanted to think that she and Robbie were involved, then why not let hiuy’

‘A football coach?’

‘He’s more than just a football coach, Alessandro, and there’s no need to play the snob card You weren’t always rich—in case you had forgotten!’

‘Ah, but I always kneould be There’s a difference between awith his life Here’s a piece of advice for you, Megan—your football coach will age into an overweight ex-athlete; ask yourself whether you’ll find his lack of drive such a bundle of laughs then Are you going to be happy serving him up his food on a tray in front of the television in the two-bedroom house you’ve stretched yourselves to buy? With a couple of kids squawking in the background?’

Alessandro didn’t knohy he felt compelled to pour cold water on her relationship He supposed that it sprang fros he’d once had for her, and a certain auilty awareness that he had been, just maybe, a little harsh when he had dispatched her

She didn’t answer, and her lack of response was like a red rag to a bull

Couldn’t the wo out the obvious?

‘What I choose to do with my life isn’t your concern, Alessandro There’s the café I can’t believe Robbie ed to persuade your fiancée to have a coffee in a place that serves bacon and eggs all day to lorry drivers and cabbies’

Ahead of the at the rafters Once upon a tiled with, sitting in soain fry-up Outside, a group of youths were larking around, wearing hoodies It was like looking through a glassat his past, and for a few ia He reached out and yanked Megan back

‘The guy’s a loser,’ he said abruptly ‘And I’an’