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‘When, Chrissie?’ he repeated doggedly

‘Oh, a little while after inary husband disappeared into thin air,’ Chrissie supplied ‘And then shortly after my final visit to the embassy, your father ca became clear’

‘I don’t knohat you hope to achieve by talking nonsense like this at a point when all either of us can want is a divorce’

Chrissie elevated a very fine brow ‘I don’t know, Jauldo you think it could be anger h?’

‘Anger has no place here We have lived apart for a long ti ly

‘You do know that I hate you?’ Chrissie pressed shakily, a flicker of hysteria firing her that he could stand there evidently untouched as though nothing of any great import had ever happened between them Yet once he had pursued her relentlessly and had sworn that he loved her and that only the security ofdeader than an old love affair, a little voice cried plaintively inside her, and the proof of that old maxim stood in front of her

Jaul was thinking of the wo unvisited in his hospital bed and he aze with coldly contemptuous dark eyes ‘Why would I care?’

He didn’t feel like Jaul any nition, Chrissie acknowledged numbly He wanted a divorce; he needed a divorce But she was still struggling to get her head around the astonishing fact that they had genuinely been married for over two years ‘Why did your father tell al?’

His lean, strong face tautened ‘It was not a lie He believed it to be illegal—’

‘But that’s not all he believed,’ Chrissie whispered ‘He told h that cerele out of the commitment and walk away any time you wanted—’

‘I refuse to believe that he would ever have said or even i of that nature,’ Jaul derided with an emphatic shake of his i father—’