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‘Actually, it’s hts New York’

To Megan, four nights sounded like eternity

‘Lucky you!’ she trilled ‘I’ve alanted to go to New York! I don’t suppose there’s , but try and take some pictures!’

‘You could coo on a business trip with hithen on the spur of the moment

‘No chance School’

Alessandro scowled ‘A few days aouldn’t result in a generation of drop-outs’

‘True But I can’t’ There was an edginess to hisitself to her

‘Who are you going to go out with?’

‘Oh, just a few friends Probably a pub’

That said nothing Alessandro’s mood deteriorated and later, when they ression that only stopped a little short of savagery

He told her that he would call Every day Megan told him that there was no need, that she would be fine She was determined to show him self-reliance

He left for the airport with the ridiculous notion that he had stupidly dug hi her that he would be away at least two days longer than he needed to be

It left hi out and chatting with the guy she seeh she must know that it just wasn’t on At least not in his world

He couldn’t concentrate He repeatedly told himself that it had been a stupid idea to try and tease a response out of her by absenting himself from the scene And she didn’t seem herself when he called her

Alessandro, who had an office in Manhattan, in one of the seriously tall buildings that dwarfed the street beloung round in his chair and glared out of the floor-to-ceiling sheet of glass that separated him from a twenty-storey free fall

He had just got off the phone to her, and although the tiht weird response to hearing his voice, he had the sickening feeling that so