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And hard on the heels of that thought was another disturbing one Why did he care? Why did it ht of her with another man?

She still wanted hiht burn for him but she had run awayhadn’t looked back

And it wasn’t in him to chase a wo implied a lack of control, and he only had to look at his parents to see where that led Their crazy love had resulted in an utter lack of control They were so si each other on in their harebrained antics For them, the rest of the world didn’t really exist—and that was a dangerous place for them to occupy

That said, he spent the evening on his own, drinking too ht and a headache that kept hi

Where could she possibly be going for a weekend with a guy she’d only justherself into some kind of random affair with a man who could turn out to be anybody? Wasn’t she aware that that was a dangerous game to play?

And how could she get involved with someone else when she was still wrapped up in him?

He couldn’t He’d tried, but he hadn’t been able to

Kate h, sassy career wo a little and what you found was so to be taken advantage of, soer if it approached ringing bells and announcing itself through a aphone

She had been as safe as houses with him, but who knehat she would find with some man she had probably picked up in a bar somewhere? Because sure as hell she didn’t keep a little black book full of useful rainy-day nuuy was, she would have found hiullible single girls to appear A sexy-as-hell single girl would be like manna from heaven

Sheahead on some new, independent path, but she was too naive to realize that any path that involved sex would be littered with potholes and pitfalls for someone who still believed in fairy tales

He didn’t think twice He knehere she lived

What har sure that she hadn’t found herself in some sort of perilous situation she couldn’t cope with? Or even some sort of fairly harmless situation she couldn’t cope with?

What was the big deal in being a guy who could see the bigger picture? He was h not to be churlish just because she had decided to h she still fancied him

Besides, he was pretty sure he needed to go out to buy so anyway Coffee Newspapers

This would be a multipurpose trip

CHAPTER TEN

KATE HAD NEVER in a ht that her mother could be a source of co But Shirley Watson had risen to the occasion and surprised her She was, as she had said with an uninhibited laugh, the queen of broken hearts

‘But, really, my heart was only broken once,’ she had said ‘And that hen your father left I just needed to find s to realize that I could never replace him I had to look in different places for a different sort of uess what? Even if I could have turned back tiuy ould leavefor your dad was the best bit of falling I ever did’

Kate double-checked that everything in the house was as it should be and glanced down at the holdall in which New Kate had been packed New Kate being the Kate ore clothes that suited a girl her age instead of the clothes of soe

Unfortunately Old Kate was notto keep pace, and Old Kate was the one who had fallen in love with the wrong man, who didn’t fit the pretty, carefree outfits, who still wanted to hide behind her ary jackets

She sighed and thought that there was no point in killing tih herin Exeter, that she would get the train and meet her there, and then they could continue the reether At least she wouldn’t be on the road alone for longer than three and a half hours, all being kind with the traffic

It was just as well, because she felt exhausted

How could he have just replaced her with someone else in such a short space of time? And how could he have done what he had—turned her on, made her remember what she didn’t want to remember?

Speculation took root and had a field day in her head

Had Alessandro been seeing the lawyer before he had decided to indulge in a fling with her? Maybe they had had an arguround for all sorts of arguments Perhaps their timetables had clashed Perhaps he had wanted more

Or maybe he had come to his senses and done the comparisons An ey next to a laas heading in the same direction he was They could make appointments to meet up and book dates in bed to accommodate their frantic timetables For a ement, and perhaps he had worked that out for himself