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‘And you’ve

‘What are you talking about?’

‘Nothing’ She tried to inch the door shut, but he pushed against it and stepped into the hallway He didn’t knohat it was, but this woman drove him to the brink of madness

‘You can’t make a statement like that and then refuse to qualify it’

‘You knohat I’ about!’

Now that he was finally inside, Alessandro felt less like a e of a precipice At least he had her full attention ‘I don’t’

‘In which case you’re stupid But we both know you’re not that!’ Megan pressed herself against the wall, her hands behind her back, her eyes blazing with defiant anger ‘I saw all those pictures of you plastered in the newspapers’

She knew as soon as the words were out of herabout He had never, even at university, read the tabloids He had only ever read the broadsheets Nothing had changed, and she could have kicked herself for opening herself

‘What pictures?’

Megan took a deep breath and looked at hi a riotous time with a bevy of beautiful women And I don’t have any objection to that,’ she bit out, ‘because we’re no longer together In fact, I’ve been having a riotous tiht of Stuart and the riotous ti to kid herself that it hadn’t felt like kissing a slab of wood

Alessandro felt his spirits soar with satisfaction that she had been following his movements, had been jealous of the woood tiht about the riotous ti Then he crashed back down to earth with supersonic speed

‘You shouldn’t read those trashy newspapers,’ he gritted ‘And you should know better than to believe that they ever report the truth’

‘Meaning what?’ Megan flung at him

‘Meaning that I went out, sure, but if you thought froood ti’

‘Guess what? I don’t believe you’ But she wanted to

‘I can’t blame you’