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He turned away froalvanised her into action

‘Don’t go!’

At that, Alessandro turned slowly around to face her

‘I…I want you to stay,’ Megan said

The words had a fa about them, but she shoved that to the back of her ed him to stay! She enty-six now, and anyway she wasn’t, she told herself, begging him to stay At least not the way she once had when he had been her entire universe and she had wanted to follow him to the ends of the earth

‘But ontowards her

‘Which are…?’

‘That…that…it’s just about the sex Okay, I adet involved with you…’ What a joke She had never not been involved with hi or two about self-defence, and the first rule, she thought noas to keep that vulnerable side to herself But soet over this incredible pull of attraction between the her crazy

‘Sex without involvement…After my mistakes with Victoria, I’m all in favour of those terms…’ He cupped her face with his hands and stroked her cheeks with his thu her was hauntingly and erotically faoing to hear us and co a heavy object?’

‘She’s not that protective!’ Megan felt as though she was on the edge of a precipice, with one foot dangling over the side

‘We could always stay down here,’ Alessandroforlove after seven years in front of a radiator instead of an open fire just doesn’t seeh ‘…to fit the bill…’