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‘What are you doing here?’

‘I live here’

‘I thought I would be delivering this to Victoria’s house!’

‘Did you? Maybe I should explain’ He walked towards her, reached out and relieved her of the jacket ‘I don’t do nights at Victoria’s house She’s of the opinion that Dominic wouldn’t understand the concept of a live-in lover’

‘Why have you brought me here?’

It was a very good question, and one which Alessandro struggled to answer Why would he choose to jeopardise his orderly life by courting conversation with a woman who had made it clear that she didn’t want to converse with his had been tense and unproductive, but it was as though so him on to see her

He didn’t knohether it was because the guilt he had felt seven years ago when they had broken up had never really left his right between the once possessed her so fully that she would have juh hoops for hiuts Maybe he needed to convince her that he wasn’t the bad guy she thought he was Although he couldn’t work out why it should matter When had he ever cared about anybody else’s opinions? Even an ex-girlfriend’s?

Victoria had no problean In fact, she had been positively encouraging on the subject But how long before she picked up on the strange electricity that still see before that became a problem?

‘I don’t want you to have a problem with me,’ Alessandro told her bluntly ‘Yes, I know you think I’m a bastard who dumped you, but, face it, there’ll be times e bump into one another You teach Dominic; I am involved with his mother Therefore I will see you occasionally at school Presumably’

He frowned, and wondered why he was having trouble i any routine of domesticity with Victoria and her son He had had no such problee proposal to her three months previously At that ti doith an undehly motivated ould complement his lifestyle, and allow it to carry on with seamless ease

‘It is ridiculous that we clash every time we meet—and please don’t tell s difficult between us, and I want us to iron out the creases’

Megan had figured out why he wanted to ‘iron out the creases’ A smooth relationship between theht They probably would bump into one another from time to time as he became absorbed into the routine of family life with Dominic and his mother The school was very hot on parental involvement, and sooner or later their paths would cross An atossip