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Megan started She lived in daily fear that he would so the i should that weakness be exposed Would he run a mile? In her crazy daydreams he wouldn’t, but daydrea to preserve a healthy scepticism—at least on the outside

She peered round the door Alessandro was now sitting up, sprawled a to have a shower,’ she told hi home’

‘It’s Saturday Why are you heading home?’

He frowned Three weeks ago he had considered it a pretty safe bet that she would be running at his beck and call the minute they were lovers Indeed, Alessandro had taken that as a given He had also thought long and hard about why he still wanted her and had come to the conclusion that it was because, as he had told her, she was his unfinished business He had broken off their relationship because of circuht to do so, but sexually she ithout compare, and he needed to have her before she cleared his system, so to speak It made sense

Unfortunately, whilst they were as ra as he had ever experienced, he wasn’t reaching her They met only on predeter had taken hily but fir evening What, he had thought, could be so is about?

But when they did meet he had to ad he could have wanted It was faly new at the same time But there was always a part of her that she seee to his o, he was determined to reach that part and scoop it out

‘Well?’ He tried to pose it as a light question, but the demand was there, just under the surface ‘What’s so important that you have to fly off at the break of dawn on a Saturday ?’

‘It’s not the break of dawn It’s after ten’

‘That’s quibbling over detail’ He patted the side of the bed invitingly ‘Co’

‘You’re insatiable!’ Megan laughed ‘I’ to feel like a sex slave!’

‘Not precisely what I was thinking of, but are you saying that you don’t like the role?’