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‘Is he the only man you’ve had since we broke up?’

‘Is Victoria the only woman you’ve had since we broke up?’

She erous territory they were treading For hiht to indulge For her this was a release of passion that threatened to tip over into soive herself

‘Oh, for goodness’ sake! I’ out with Robbie,’ she confessed unsteadily ‘Okay? I’ood friends’

‘Then why the pretence?’ Alessandro released her and stepped back, shaken by what he had felt just then ‘Did you feel that you had to prove so to me?’

Megan was rubbing her wrist, glad of the small distance he had put between the to normal

‘Of course I didn’t feel that I had to prove anything to you!’ She drew in a shaky breath ‘Okay, maybe there was a bit of that Can you blaot the perfect life—the life you alanted You’veyou have a fan club of admirers and people ould bend over backwards to do whatever you want them to do…The past is just some horrible, dusty old memory you’ve stuck away in a box somewhere…And to top it off you’ve found the wo her…When, by the way? I never asked…When is the wedding set for?’

‘We haven’t set a date yet’ Alessandro wondered hoas that his perfect life was beginning to feel so da he had ever wanted?

‘So…’ Megan shrugged, and then grinned ruefully—because as the point getting all worked up when there were people out there having fun?

Perhaps the punch had lowered her defences, ain, she still had that old fa, was it? Everyone carried a certain weakness for their first love

‘Can you blame me if it suited me for you to think that I had a boyfriend? Truth is, I have had boyfriends—but not Robbie’ And just in case he took that s for hi on with my life, you couldn’t be further from the truth—and it’s not just that I’ve done what I alanted to do career wise I learnt a big lesson from you I really learnt what sort of one out with have been kind, funny, s…’

‘Kind, funny, s…Hmm…Yet the relationships haven’t lasted, I take it? Or else one of these wonderlittle old ladies across roads… a serious, in-depth conversation about the joys of being broke…’

Megan didn’t like where she thought that innocuous re—and she liked his sarcastic tone of voice even less ‘So deal Imy prince’

‘Kiss a thousand frogs? Find a prince? What planet are you living on, Megan? That’s the sort of cliché an adolescent with starry eyesopti trait, but haven’t you realised by now that life isn’t about finding the ideal—it’s about learning how to compromise?’

‘Is that what you’re doing with Victoria, Alessandro? Co?’

‘I’an In life, it’s what people do if they are to succeed’

‘Does she know that you’re just coan found that she preferred the word co his head Compromise, in her eyes, meant that she could remove him froly pleased to show her that he occupied Co do No one compromised because they wanted to; they compromised because they couldn’t work out another option

‘Well…’ for the first tian decided that she could safely occupy the high ground ‘I may be an eternal optimist, but I refuse to comprooing out with ato do As if,’ she continued, getting into the swing of things, ‘your personal life, the way you feel, can be worked out on a piece of paper like…like a budget!’