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Sergio didn’t say anything and silence filled the rooht

‘This is beginning to get on my nerves, Susie What exactly is it that you want to say? If it’s a little speech about our future, then I’ll spare you the trau the subject You kno I feel on the matter’

Sudden tension lent his voice a sharp edge that made her flinch back, as if she had been struck

‘Of course I know!’ she snapped tensely ‘You’ve made it perfectly clear from day one and you haven’t let up since!’

Startled at her own outburst, because it was so unlike her, she felt tears prick the back of her eyes She blinked rapidly and took a few deep breaths She’d been snapping at hiot what she had to say off her chest

Sergio’s jaw hardened ‘The reason I’ht level of boredos can soirl She sees her best friend, or in your case her cousin, walking up the aisle and suddenly she starts thinking that it’s about ti’

‘I wasn’t thinking that’

‘No? Because your father happened toyou’ve ever really wanted Apparently you used to spend your childhood days dressing up your dolls in big wedding dresses andthem off to whatever stuffed toy was handy’

Susie’s cheeks flaht that her father had paid the slightest bit of attention to that phase of her life

‘I had no idea you’d been having such in-depth conversations with ”?’

‘That you insisted on that secretarial course which had only ever been a suggestion You clung to it and stuck it out—even though it was obvious froical and got bored the second you stepped foot inside an office’

Shaking, Susie slithered towards the chaise longue and sat down, giving her wobbly legs a rest

He had no right to just turn up and then to burrow his way into her past via her parents Not now Not when everything was changing