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‘And ould you say if I told you that I don’t want to move on?’

Megan looked at his face, unusually hesitant, and then nodded towards the sitting room

‘Ten minutes’

Alessandro hadn’t realised how tense he had been until he exhaled a deep breath of relief and preceded her into the sitting roo it on a side table

‘Where’s Charlotte?’ he asked

‘Out’

‘Is she going away somewhere?’

‘Why do you ask?’ He had an still found it hard to relax, and had remained by the door, her arhtest hint of trouble

‘I noticed a suitcase by the door’

‘That’saway for the half-term week’

‘Your case…’

Hisaway on her own Until now he had had an arrogant faith in her dependability on hiain, had resumed their relationship, he had still known that howeveraround Noasn’t too sure But he shut the door on that ht

‘Whatever you believed about my motivations,’ Alessandro said in a raw undertone, ‘you rong I’ve tried to put you out of my mind but I can’t, and I want more of you than just an occasional relationship I know that you’re still hankering for a country life, and I have realised that what you want has a pretty high priority in an…’