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Alessandro looked at her white stricken face and knew that he had been right to have dropped everything and returned

‘You said that you wanted to talk’

‘You flew back here because I said that we needed to talk?’

Alessandro was quick to spot the fact that she had replaced wanted with needed

‘I’ towards her

Before he had left for New York she had been all over hi him cautiously, and he felt a film of perspiration break out over his body He didn’t knohat had engineered this change but ti, hellish hours on the Red-Eye, had put everything into perspective

‘Because I want to talk too’ He swung his long body onto the sofa with her but maintained a certain distance, because he didn’t want to be distracted by the proxi her breath, and Alessandro wondered why it had taken hi to wake up to the obvious ‘I’ve been a fool,’ he muttered in a lo voice, which meant that she had to lean towards hi ‘We should never have been apart’

‘You had s in New York…’

‘That’s not what I’ aside her interruption with an iesture that was so eloquently hi jumble of words inside him, and a panicky desperation for her to hear theo…I made a mistake…’

‘You did?’

‘I was a young, a up to a stark truth which he had known fros at the university, and it felt good to get it off his chest ‘I thought I knehat I wanted’