page26 (2/2)

‘Stanley told you that? He never talks about his past For God’s sake—he was supposed to deliver you back to your apartment, not launch into an explanation of his life experiences I’ll have to have a ith him Discretion is always—but always—the better part of valour when it co a chauffeur’

‘Please don’t! People confide in o to hi up’

Sergio could scarcely believe that his driver had ‘opened up’ He wasn’t the opening up kind ‘People confide in you?’

‘It’s one of the things I do really well I hed self-consciously ‘It’s one of my few talents’

‘How did we get on to this?’

‘I don’t know You were telling’

She couldn’t bear the thought of hearing hi voice of his that he’d had his fill and it was tioodbye Maybe he would tell her that she orth every rose he had sunk his money into

Had he said anything when she had jokingly told him that she’d help stick them in vases at his apartment because he would have to take most of theht up with trying to predict what he was going to say

‘I know it doesn’t,’ she said lightly, because it seemed a better idea to take the bull by the horns than to wait for it to destroy the shop

‘It doesn’t I’ a relationship with you, Susie’

‘I know I’m not your type,’ she interjected quickly, before he could really get going on so truly hurtful

‘Even if you were’

‘You h-powered,types?’

‘If you want to put it that way Even if you were one of those, I still wouldn’t be interested in any kind of relationship’