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She could jack in her job and look for another one, but that thought lasted all of one second There was no way she was going to alter her life because she couldn’t handle seeing him

‘And that’s why you dragged me over here? So that you could try and iron out creases?’

‘Stop fighting me!’

‘Is that an order? Have you become so accustoht of anyone refusing to bow, and scrape, and do exactly as you say?’

‘You never obeyedthe way she had been able to tease hihed when he had frowned at sos with her even though he had hated most of the bands

Megan wanted to ask him whether that hy he had seen no future in their relationship—because he hadn’t iht that there had probably been a hundred reasons why he had seen no future in their relationship, and asking for a breakdown of the yet another stupid step into a past that was best left behind

In the end he was right when he said that she was fighting hi herself, for still having s towards him

Right now, for instance, even though he had dragged her fro, she still felt achingly aware of the stark dynanetis a pair of black running pants and a black tee shirt It had always been his unifor them now, in the expensive splendour of his Chelsea home, as he had in the squalor of his one-bedroom rented studio flat

She wondered how long it would take him to realise that her prickly reaction to him was as much to do with her as it was to do with him He had ally, thata replaceht

She shuddered to think hoould react if he ever realised how close he’d been to the truth

‘You’re right’ She gave him a wry smile—an olive-branch smile ‘I think the word you used to use was stubborn’

‘Like a reed