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‘I see up on your doorstep,’ Alessandro told her wryly, breaking the spell ‘A bit like a stray I’ve been trying to work out why that is’

His inclination was to push past her, get inside the house, deuy was he had seen with her outside only tenon theback For starters, since as it acceptable for an ex to be lurking outside his girlfriend’s house, spying? For another, since when did he, aas weird as that?

But Alessandro had prettyanswers to his behaviour as far as Megan was concerned The past feeeks had been hellish He had done his ut himself that there were plenty other fish in the sea But not only had the plentiful fish been spectacularly disappointing, he had not even been tempted to sample any

Was this love? He didn’t know He had just reached a point when he knew that he had to see her And he had With another o there

The knowledge that he ht have ent panic

No, he definitely wouldn’t et her back up and right now Alessandro just wanted to win some Brownie points

‘Forget it’ It took enor an assessment of the situation

Alessandro had been out partying and having fun, had maybe—no, probably—slept with so on to his arm for dear life, but she was still on hisreasons Sex, lust, unfinished business—not to mention a healthy dollop of flattenedthis tiet sick of her, and noas back to finish what he had started

She began closing the door, but he inserted hiainst hiave up and glared at him

‘Didn’t you hear what I said, Alessandro?’ she asked tightly ‘I don’t want to see you I’ve said everything I wanted to say and I’ve moved on with my life now’

Moved on with another ut He wondered whether she and the guy had got round to sleeping together yet, and the thought of it sent a red haze of rage through his mind