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‘Maybe now that I’ve tried the big-city life I’et back to my open-field syndrome!’

‘You ht just find that’s easier said than done’

Alessandro didn’t knohy he was getting hot under the collar at Megan’s innocent conversation, but it gnaay at hihout the whole of the first half of the musical

He was vaguely aware of dutifully clapping in all the right places—just as he was vaguely aware that the wo on the stage But he was largely preoccupied with the disturbing suspicion that he wanted to be the one calling all the shots Was that just his hts of so theht that he was not one of those guys who got off on being always in control

By the tirip of a pretty foul an’s bubbly chatter and her insistence on getting his thoughts on what he had seen so far Wasn’t the choreography brilliant? Wasn’t the singing fantastic? Wasn’t that little kid just so adorable?

Alessandro was non-committal as they headed for the bar, where drinks had been pre-ordered

‘Not too many musicals in the countryside these days,’ hat he heard hih probably quite a few barn dances’

‘What’s it to you whether I bury oing to barn dances?’ Megan asked tartly

Ahead of theed in the chaos of the bar

This whole stupid conversation see to back down

‘Obviously not much,’ Alessandro drawled darkly ‘You can bury yourself wherever you want to I merely felt compelled to point out the drawbacks to your master plan’

‘And thanks very irl now I think I can work out how to live my life without your advice In fact—’ she furthered her cause for independence ‘—if you’llto join the queue for the Ladies’ I lass of wine’

She wasn’t one hundred per cent sure where the restrooo, but she needed to put some distance between herself and Alessandro This should have been a fun evening Instead the fun bit was getting lost in an uncoht furiously as she battled through the crowds like a fish swi to the theatre, then he should never have invited her But he had asked her along and then proceeded to pick a row over her silly, purely hypothetical plan to move out to the country Just because, she reasoned, he had to be the one whose opinions were always right