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‘In the shower’

‘Good, because I have so I want to say to you’

Rachel rolled her eyes Here it comes ‘What?’

‘Now, don’t take that tone with me, Missy Someone has to look after your best interests and that someone is me I know you, Rach You probably think you love thisafter running into Eric like that You’ve also been very lonely And loneliness can s Fros, your boss has been very lonely too, not tokicked out of hih an experience like that without a seriously da out soines Carl Tooht of that?’

‘Yes’

‘And?’

‘It doesn’t fit his character He’s too decent for that’

‘Decent! Reading between the lines, he’s been screwing you silly all over your office I haven’t forgotten that little joke youour last phone call Only that wasn’t a joke, was it? That was the truth!’

‘Sort of But things have changed’

‘Huh He’s just changed the scene of his crimes, that’s all He’s probably afraid you’ll slap a sexual-harass it on his desk He’s thinking ahead’

‘Thinking ahead to what?’

‘To that day when he gets bored and gives you the bullet’

‘He’s not like that’

Isabel groaned ‘You do think you love him’

‘I do love him, OK? So shoot me’

‘For pity’s sake, girl, it could just be lust, you know Even on your part’

‘Like it was on yours? With Rafe?’

‘That was different’

‘How?’

‘It just was’