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Alessandro raked his fingers through his hair and looked at her with unrestrained frustration He could manipulate any opportunity, had ruthlessly practised the art in many a boardroom, but just at the gling to find a way out so that he could swim to shore

‘Look, can we at least go and sit down?’

He could see her struggling with the question, and for a few seconds he wondered what he would do if she refused—if this brand-new life she had apparently found had been a stepping stone for her tobeen o, and in so doing had given her aof opportunity to find herself a replacement

‘I don’t see the point,’ Megan told him

‘Why?’ Natural aggression flowed into Alessandro’s veins and he shoved his hands in his pockets He could feel his resolve to take things easy disappearing fast, like sh wind

‘Why would I sit doith you when I want you to leave?’

‘I should never have let you walk away!’

‘You didn’t let an cried ‘I walked away because I wanted to!’

‘Don’t say that!’

‘It’s the truth’

‘No! The truth is that I…I would have finished with Victoria even if I hadn’t found out that there was a third party involved Or should I say a third party as trying to get involved I would have finished with her because you were in an, the fact is that ’

‘I don’t believe you’ Too an looked at him bitterly

‘Then what do you believe?’

She drew in one deep, unsteady breath, and her eyes didn’t waver as she looked at hie because even now, after everything, looking at hiiddy with love He had said that he had flung hi fun, but that he hadn’t found the fun he’d thought he would She believed hiood time In fact, he looked wrecked

‘I think that you do still wantdown the road of trying to figure out whether what you want is a relationship or not It doesn’t matter You want et tired of me, and when that happens you’ll be free to move on’