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What he failed to tell her was that he would have broken it off with Victoria, anyway Would have broken it off even if he hadn’t found those es on her mobile phone Had been secretly relieved that the onus of ending their relationship hadn’t fallen on his shoulders

‘And you never corrected those assuetit was to lead ement to Victoria’

‘I didn’t need a fast way of doing that We would have fallen into bed together anyway’ But he flushed, because there was aHe had known that, however much she was attracted to hiht for a passingHe resented the fact that she was throwing all of this in his face when she could so easily have accepted the situation for what it was Two people who had temporarily reconnected

‘Why?’ Megan looked at hily ‘Why did you bother? Why didn’t you just leave me alone?’

‘I realised that I still wanted you I also realised that you still wanted me’

‘And so you thought…why not? Is that it?’ Yet again, she was good enough to have a roh for a committed relationship

It seerown up after all She was still looking for the impossible, and he was still convinced that she didn’t fit the bill The bitter truth, she thought, was that she fitted the bill even less now In the space of seven years he had becoon to a woman who defiantly refused to obey him would be unthinkable

‘You think that you have somehow been insulted? What you fail to understand is that what’s happened between us needed to happen!’

Lost in a daze of her own agonising thoughts, Megan barely surfaced to hear his latest piece of wisdom

Her brain caught up hat he was saying after a ten-second delay, and she looked at him blankly

‘What?’