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‘You don’t look particularly sorry’ He raked his fingers through his hair In the darkness, there was a dangerous glitter in his eyes that would have sent a shiver down her spine if she weren’t feeling so angry ‘Let’s just cut through the crap, Megan If you’ve got feland You were fine today ere out, and you were perfectly well up until the second half What the hell’s going on?’

‘I need to talk to you,’ Megan said stiffly, ‘and the back seat of a taxi isn’t the place’ Nor was his house, for thatto drop her home, and anyway she had some of her possessions at his place, which she would have to collect

Alessandro looked first at the distance she had put between them, at her hands which were balled into fists on her lap, and then at her profile as she stared out of the

Need to talk? Female problems?

His justified annoyance at her abrupt end to the evening did a rapid U-turn She had said that she needed to talk to him—correction, that she needed to talk privately—and she had said it in a voice that had uely uneasy Add to that the fact that she was sitting like an iceberg next to him, and he came up with the one explanation which made sense

He didn’t kno, but it was suddenly clear to hinant She had disappeared to the restroo time, and then had returned with a personality transplant Had she taken so in the co about her ular as it should have? Who knew? Alessandro wasn’t a doctor, but he was pretty sure that he had hit jackpot

He lapsed into a reflective silence of his own as he began to consider the possibilities of this unexpected event

He had not considered his relationship with Megan to be a permanent one She was an itch that he needed to scratch—a fever that roared through his systee all that He thought about becoan wasn’t like Victoria She would see parenthood as a full-ti bottles—all of that would be, for her, a shared venture His life would be turned on its head

Alessandro looked at her For so up inside, she appeared remarkably calm In fact, for so on an e the situation with a lot of sang froid

The taxi pulled up outside his house

‘Okay,’ he said, opening his front door and standing back to let her walk past him ‘You’ve had tiot prepared…’ Alessandro slaainst it and watching her ‘So what’s this talk about? Anything to do with those female problems you mentioned, by any chance?’