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Finally he heard her half running down the stairs, and she reappeared in the doorway, onceThe dress and all the other accessories had, he assuory

‘I won’t tell you that you’ve blown this out of all proportion,’ he heard hi him

‘You just did And if that’s your opinion, then you’re welcome to voice it’

‘I think you’remistake,’ Alessandro said stiffly For him, this felt like a major concession

‘Oh? And that would be…why? Exactly?’

‘What are you going to do when you walk out of this house? Do you i to slot back to the place it was before we happened to meet? Before we became lovers?’

‘No I don’t think it will for a minute, Alessandro’

Megan looked at hi how different he was from the o, and hom she was now still so stupidly in love Alessandro made love like a dream, and could make any woman feel like the sexiest woical e, and didn’t shy away fro He was getting older, and how seriously could any man, however brilliant, intuitive and filthy rich, be taken by the People Who Mattered if he approached his forties still with the reputation of being a playboy? For so passion, every scandalous inch in a gossip column would be seen as an erosion into his credibility

Hence Victoria She had been his perfect match, because she would never have interfered with his working life

Realistically, Megan knew that she exercised some power over him—but only in a sexual sense Her mistake had been to think that he would ever allow passion to rule his life He hadn’t seen her as enhancing his life,it, and everyone knehat happened to invaders They were eventually repelled

It was her misfortune that his role in her life was co force, then she had been a joyful captive, waving the white flag before he had even had the chance to take up residence She hadn’t so ed to be taken on board