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‘It’s going to be fun’

‘I loathe musicals’

‘This is going to be brilliant,’ Megan assured hier was recruited on a reality television show’

‘And I loathe reality television shows even ether and I have no idea why I agreed to go in the first place’ He folded her against him as they walked out to the taxi ‘Just as well I shall have soet back…’

But Megan was excited It had been ages since she had last been to the theatre It alsoAlessandro and doing the routine business of her work, a lot of her extra-curricular hobbies had gone by the wayside Her football games, which were on a Wednesday, had been ditched in favour of hi about it, so had a nu Robbie, whom she hadn’t seen since New Year’s Eve

She frowned and wondered at how quickly her spare ti eaten away

She would have to do soive Robbie a call in the week, see what he had been up to, e to meet him for a drink

Alessandro hadn’t mentioned the football coach for a while, so hopefully he wouldn’thim Good friends should never be dropped in favour of a relationship, however preoccupying that relationship ht be

He also never spoke of Victoria, and all atteet him on the subject had been stillborn It was as if she had never existed

She looked at him in the darkness of the cab Aside from the standard white shirt, he was in black Black trousers, black jacket, black coat He looked dangerous, but then he turned to her, san settled in the crook of his arh

‘Are you glad I persuaded you to coht?’ he asked softly, and after a an nodded—because what could be better than this? ‘And, in case I haven’t told you, you look a’

‘Is it the sort of thing Victoria would have worn?’ The words had left her mouth before she could hold them back, and she could feel Alessandro stiffen next to her