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He probably wouldn’t stew for very long, but the thought of hiht well distract her froet out of herherself a hole, jumped in, and proceeded to cover herself with earth All her crazy hopes had been based on a piece of fiction

Of course now that she was actually facing his barrage of questions, and staring into those black, intense eyes in which she had happily lost herself, she no longer felt quite so content with a dignified exit

She had never been able tocool

‘Well?’ Alessandro deoldfish?’

‘Let et my stuff!’

‘Not until we’ve had some kind of conversation about this!’

‘You always have to get your oay, don’t you, Alessandro?’ she responded in a shrill voice, which sent his temper levels up by a couple of notches

‘That’s prettythat, the better for all concerned’

‘Okay I’ll tell you what you want to know’ She took a couple of deep breaths to cal in the queue for the toilet?’

‘No idea Why don’t you enlighten me?’

‘Your ex! Victoria Remember her?’

‘Of course I remember her,’ Alessandro said warily ‘How is she?’

‘Oh, she’s doing just fine, now that you ask! Better than fine, in fact Positively thriving’

Alessandro waited

‘Aren’t you going to ask me e chatted about?’

‘Why don’t we go downstairs to finish this conversation?’ he said in a grim voice ‘You said that you didn’t want to talk in the taxi because it wasn’t the right place Well, getting hysterical on the landing isn’t the right place for me’

Megan wanted to tell hiht place for her, because that way she ht have asserted a little of her willpower, but in actual fact her legs felt wobbly, and while she knew that heading straight towards the question-and-answer session she had wanted to avoid was going to be undignified, collapsing outside his bedroos were like jelly would have been even nified