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Megan looked at hi on htly

‘I prefer to call it taking a healthy interest in what’s happening aroundto bolt back to the countryside Back up to Scotland?’

‘You ht the rail ticket and packedback to Scotland any time soon You could say I’ve become accustomed to the tropical weather down south’

Megan watched, entranced, at the people ra the at of pleasant anticipation that hung in the air just before the curtain was raised, the orchestra at the front, trying out a few bars, getting the note just right for when they launched into the first number

‘But London doesn’t suit you…’ Alessandro murmured

‘It suitshere to live for ever’

‘Because it suits people like le warfare of the business world?’

Megan looked sideways at thenext to her In his dark suit and trade from under the cuffs of the shirt and his dark hair slicked back and curling, slightly too long, against his collar, he should have been just another very rich, very well-dressed, above averagely good-looking business just beneath the urbane, sophisticated exterior—so round and le warfare? He couldn’t have chosen a better metaphor

‘Guess so,’ she told hi in London! You’d go nuts if you were stuck out in the countryside with nothing better to do than laze around watching nature’

Megan thought how nice it would be just to take ti involved with a man when she knew that he would break her heart—just as he had done the first tio Fast, furious, sizzling excite then and it wasn’t relaxing now Her only relaxation came from her private daydrea more substantial than the fact that he ith her now and it was his conscious choice

She hadn’t, until right now, even considered the possibility ofout to the countryside Melissa had raised the subject and she had replied out of politeness But, thinking about it, it was beginning to see by the second

She had spent the day on cloud nine, shopping with Alessandro, fighting hard to maintain a cool, detached exterior while her heart had been racing And just at the moment she was keenly and painfully aware of hi into her so that he could whisper into her ear His war in her body tingle Was all of that desirable? Moreover, she seemed to have no control over what he did to her Her body and her mind seemed to lose the ability to function norood way to be?

‘Butto the idea of a life that wasn’t lived in a permanent state of nervous anticipation, ‘I’d love the countryside I’d love to have a little cottage with cla roses on a white picket fence, and ae school Maybe,’ she elaborated wistfully, ‘I would take up knitting’

Alessandro gave a burst of laughter that had a few eyes turning in their direction A few, having seen hier than was necessary

‘I thought you’d already done the rural school fantasy And knitting? You?’

‘It’s a possibility!’ Megan snapped in a low, irritated voice

‘I think your personality et in the way of such a placid pasti of her dressed in that wisp of red and green, with one ih the air ‘I’ around a muddy football pitch would be content to spend twoa scarf Seven years ago your drea?’

‘Okay, , or…or…’

‘Or…or…bird-watching…or…or…ean The picket fence and the claht sound fine in theory, but in reality you’d be bored stiff Isn’t that why you came down to London? To escape a serious case of open-field syndrome?’