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Surprisingly, Alessandro wasn’t sure that he had been worrying More conte into unknoaters…

‘Okay…’ he said, ht watch a doerously unpredictable ‘So what is this all about, then?’

‘It’s about us, Alessandro’

‘What about us?’

‘I’ve thought about this arrangement of ours and I’ve decided that the tiht bitterly of that other self—the one who had existed less than two hours ago, the one who had becoht up in all sorts of silly, reckless drearound while he looked at her in perfect bemusement

‘You don’t knohat you’re saying,’ Alessandro told her amiably ‘Did you take a knock to your head when you went to the restroom at the theatre? Maybe you need to lie down?’

‘I don’t need to lie down I need to go upstairs and getback’

The amiable smile dropped from Alessandro’s face, but before he could pick her up on what she was saying—which made absolutely no sense whatsoever—she had turned her back to hi up the stairs

After a second’s hesitation he followed her, easily catching up with her and blocking the door to his bedroom

‘Just like that?’ he ground out ‘You’re leaving just like that? No explanation? Well, I refuse to allow it’

‘You refuse to allow it?’ Megan gave a burst of

‘Yes, dammit!’

‘You can do a lot of things, Alessandro, but you can’t stopout on you’

‘What’s happened?’

‘Nothing happened I just wised up, that’s all’

‘No, it da on leaving ! Nor were you planning to leave me ere at the theatre—at least not until after the intermission You disappeared for a while What happened? Who did you talk to?’

Megan had not intended to go into details When she had said goodbye to Victoria, she had been in a daze The second half of the play, which she should have enjoyed but which in reality she would have been hard-pressed to rehts, and thought nuo down the post-nified and leave him to steith unanswered questions