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‘So?’

‘So you didn’t paint the full, unexpurgated picture of your background because your high-achieving family make you feel insecure’

‘Where did that come fro

‘I’s add up’

‘And I’ up?’

‘Your father told me that they pleaded with you to use their apartton but you wouldn’t Why not?’

‘Because I’m not a kid I can stand on my oo feet’

Even though ithovel He could only admire her tenacity

‘You ht think that you sister has it all, but she envies youdid you know that?’

Susie swung to look at hih in the darkness she could barely make out his expression ‘Did she tell you that?’

‘She didn’t have to I could decipher it fro each day as it comes’

‘Alex enjoys her life She’s so clever you wouldn’t believe it’

‘She’s also the eldest There’s a lot riding on her shoulders’

‘I never thought about it frohed ‘Who cares anyway?’

‘You do’

‘I’ day I’d quite like to get some sleep now’

Sergio cupped her breast, liking the feel of its heaviness in the pal hand He rubbed her nipple with the abrasive pad of his thumb and felt it stiffen

‘You wanted to tell ,’ he murmured ‘What was it?’