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Rachel suspected, however, that Justin was not yet free of his ex His beautiful blonde ex, Eric had said Naturally, she would be beautiful Very beautiful Men like Carl Tooly women as their mistresses They chose exquisite creatures with perfect faces and figures, women with a weakness for money and a fetish for the forbidden

It was no wonder Justin had an aversion to sex in the office Rachel understood coet the past and move on, as she had decided to do

Of course, she’d had four years to come to her present state of heart and mind Justin’s wife had betrayed and abandoned hio And she’d said truly dreadful things to hi to Eric

What kind of things? Rachel wondered during the lift ride back up to the fifteenth floor Had she criticised his skills in bed? Hard to iine that Justin left Eric for dead as a lover And every other boyfriend she’d ever had Perhaps the wretched woh? Who knew?

Rachel didn’t dare ask hio back and tell hi She dared to stay And she dared to go after soht

If truth were told, she couldn’t stop thinking about it Surely he had to be thinking about it, too Rachel could be wrong but she suspected she was the first woman Justin had had sex with since his wife left him

The thought aer Selfish people like Eric and Mandy had a great deal to answer for But you couldn’t let the all over your eht back You had to stop playing the victim and move on There were other people out there Other partners But you had to be open to finding them You had to embrace new experiences, not run away from them

Rachel left the lift at her floor and hurried along to her office, her new-found boldness waning a little once she approached the door she’d sla her botto Was Justin still there behind that door, sitting at his co away? Probably It wasn’t lunch ti in his life except his work, a bruised ego and a broken heart

Till now, that was Now he had her Her friendship and companionship Her body too, if he still wanted it

Her hand was shaking by the tie to knock But it was a tiain Instead she turned the door knob and went right in

‘Oh, no,’ she groaned, her gaze darting around Justin’s empty office

Rachel was battling with her disappoint fro rooe failed her again sheopen the door