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‘You’re so black and white’

‘Like I said, I’ve seen what misplaced emotion can do I stick to what I know It ht less complicated’

‘Whatas that girl like?’

She hadn’t been aware that she was going to ask that question until it left her ht on the back foot, raised his eyebrows in a perplexed, impatient frown

‘What are you talking about?’

‘You once said that you’re the way you are because you had a learning curve Who was the wo curve?’

‘What difference does it make?’

‘None And if you don’t want to talk about it, then forget I asked’

She shrugged, startedfor the kitchen door of the house, which she kneould lead to the spacious ground floor and eventually the front door and her way out—although how she was getting home she had no idea Her ride, in the foro It would have to be another taxi

‘Where are you staying?’

‘Bed and breakfast It’s in the village A bunch of us are booked in there’

‘And I,’ he said smoothly, ‘am booked into the one and only five-star hotel ten miles away’

‘I’d rather not come with you’

‘Sure about that?’

And he swooped to kiss her, his tongue probing into herher in a swirl of heated responses that shook her to the core

He did this every tiht processes and cling to him like a vine

Yet of their own volition her arently but efficiently propelled back until she was pressed against the wall in the deserted hallway