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His jaw tightened Even recognising those anomalies, he still found that he was driven to stay put

‘Because’ he resuer then nothing’s going to come of your efforts, and if you’re just hopelessly naive then I was doing you a favour, because you’ll end up getting hurt by me’

Susie frowned ‘What makes you say that?’

‘I don’t do long-term relationships’

‘And what makes you think that I do? No, I take that back What makes you think that I would cast you in the role of so-term relationship with?’

‘Wo over-involved’

‘You’rean attractive man,’ she said carefully, ‘but there’s no chance that I would ever become “over-involved” with someone like you’

‘Someone like me?’

‘I’m a creative person’

She thought of her parents’ response to the creative types she had introduced to them in the past Perhaps some of her friends had been a little too creative

‘It’s not as though I would necessarily want to get involved with soet involved with souy like that would never accuse er, and he would never tell me that I’m so naive that I can’t take care of ant as to assuiven half a chance! I meanwho do you think you are, anyway?’

Sergio was frankly lost for words He wondered whether he should mention that there wasn’t another woman on the planet ould react to his appearance at her front door, carrying half a shop’s worth of expensive roses, by digging her heels in and giving his

‘I came here because I felt there was unfinished business between us,’ was all he could find to say

Susie raised her eyebrows

‘Didn’t you?’ he asked softly ‘Feel like there was unfinished business between us?’