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‘The thing is, Rachel, I don’t want to continue e’ve been doing’

She nodded, her athered that’ Her voice sounded dead Hollow

‘I want to try so a little more…normal’

Her head snapped back, her eyes rounding

‘I know I said I didn’t want a real relationship with you, and I ree, that still holds true Love and enda, so I won’t pretend I a you any hope of that But I do want you in my life, Rachel, not just as o out with you and, yes, go home with you sometimes My weekends are terribly lonely Last weekend was…intolerable’

‘Mine too,’ she agreed readily, her spirits lifting hat he was suggesting

‘So I was thinking, if you’d like, that we could try that kind of a relationship’

She struggled not to cry

‘I…I’d like that very ed, and found a smile from somewhere

He se you occasionally in the office’

‘I won’t mind’

He laughed ‘You’re not supposed to say that’

‘What am I supposed to say?’

‘No ood start’

‘You’re not ood with no’

‘It’s not my favourite word, I confess Not where you’re concerned But it really isn’t right, you know, doing it on ly hard to concentrate on my work’

‘Poor Justin,’ she said

‘You don’t sound all that sympathetic’

‘I’m not’

‘Would you believe I’ve actually been feeling quite guilty?’

‘Not guilty enough to stop, though,’ she pointed out with a wry little smile

He suilty’

The arrival of the wine gave Rachel a few ht not be offering her the world, but being his special lady friend was a big improvement on the role of secret sex slave