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‘It is immaterial what Victoria would have worn or not worn Don’t compare yourself to her I don’t’

Megan sank closer against him with a contented sound ‘I know, and you don’t realise how much that means to me, Alessandro That you don’t coement because of me’

She raised her head to look at hih the , and in the darkness of the taxi she couldn’t make out the expression on his face

CHAPTER SEVEN

MEGAN had expected the others in their party to be replicas of the pinstriped trio, but in fact, she was pleasantly surprised to find that they were neither old nor boring One of the wonant, and was keenly interested to hear everything about the school at which Megan taught—because, as she explained earnestly, although her baby was still only a seven-isters for private schools as early as possible Places were so oversubscribed in certain boroughs

‘Ideally, I’d like toin the crowd to their seats ‘But apparently that’s not where themoney’

‘I’an said wistfully ‘As soon as I’ve got enough experience at reen and pleasant, as they say Lots of open fields and trees and rabbits’

‘I don’t see Alessandro feeling comfortable around fields and trees and rabbits,’ Melissa said, one hand on her stomach

‘Oh, I know! He’s definitely a city kind of guy! He enjoys the fast pace, and the cut-throat, watch-out-for-the-knife-in-the-back kind of lifestyle…’

Alessandro, as right behind her, could hear every word—even though he was apparently keenly tuned in to a conversation about the stockan was discussing a future without him in it Of course what they had would fizzle out in due course…they were both dealing with the process of successful closure of a relationship The intensely gratifying sex would inevitably becooodbye with a little sigh of relief that they were over one another at last But shouldn’t he be the one to decide when that point in time came?

‘Escape back to the country…?’ he murmured, as soon as they were seated, conveniently at the very end of their row