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‘You were thinking about me?’

‘Thinking about you,’ he confir about what I wanted to do to you’ He smiled another one of those sot inside et you out Every ti your clothes off and touching you Everywhere’

‘I don’t believe you’

‘Yes, you do—and if you don’t, ask yourself this Why is it that we’ve ed to meet up so many tia I didn’t have to come to your drinks party on Christmas Day’

‘Stop it!’

The silence stretched between theerous and alive

‘You caan told him shakily ‘And you came to the Christmas Day party with Victoria’

‘But I came There was no need for me to I could just as easily have stayed away fro’

‘If I hadn’t shown up, Alessandro, you would still be happily engaged to Victoria You would beon to a bit of sanity

‘Are you telling me that you didn’t feel the saht of ether?’

‘That’s not the point’

Alessandro swung his long body off the sofa and began prowling through the rooan twisted round to follow him with her eyes Every nerve in her body was on fire Faced with a reality she had never envisaged, she literally didn’t kno to respond She knew, though, that co he would have undertaken lightly Alessandro had had his whole life e of twenty-four He had chosen Victoria because he would have seen her as slotting in with his long-term plans To have his own predetermined destiny hijacked would have taken a lot, and for that she was prepared to give him credit