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‘Is he what?’

‘In waiting for the role of Prince Char?’

‘Of course not! And you’re hurting me!’

Alessandro let her go immediately and stepped back, suddenly aware of the build-up of ee of electricity

‘This isn’t what it’s about, you know,’ he told her, unerringly going for the soft spot in her defences ‘Relationships Men don’t want a woman who screams and provokes attack’

‘I get theas she saw herself through his eyes Punch-drunk, or so heout of control Even though he’d seen her being kissed in front of an audience by a man she claimed she had no interest in, aside from a platonic one

‘You ht believe in the value of melodrama, but has it occurred to you that for every one man who enjoys that sort of stuff there are a hundred who don’t?’

‘I wasn’t being ht had gone out of her She felt like a Cinderella who hadn’t quite ht at the ball

‘I think it’s time Victoria and I left now’ Alessandro turned away and headed for the door

He couldn’t believe that he had been totally unaware of the steady thu fro room and out in the small hallway

It was a small house, but he still had to hunt down his fiancée, who seea, naturally, the football coach, towards who to nurture sos of hostility

A regular one- it on When he wasn’t slobbering over wo court with a can of beer in one hand and a cup of punch in the other