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She didn’t even knohat he did and hen she wasn’t around—when she was in Yorkshire, or back in her dingy flat trying to get her head round doing the illustrations for a job for which she had now been commissioned

And of course she couldn’t ask, could she? She had taken their relationship to the level of business and he had fallen in He was doing just what she had told hiher out for the occasionalfor her at her flat when she hadn’t felt like eating out It had been a charade of domesticity that had cut her to the quick

She had laid down her boundaries and he was si them

So asking hi anyone was totally out of the question

But she wondered He no longer wanted her That physical urgency had disappeared She thought that her changing body probably didn’t help

She was still wondering now, as she stepped off the train onto a packed platfor who knehere?

Spring hadsickness to speak off, she was now finding the hotter weather more difficult to deal with She felt tired most of the time Her breasts had shot up by thole sizes and she hadn’t been exactly flat-chested to start with

She had turned into a beach ball

Suddenly deh the crowds, buhts whirled between Sergio and what he was doing, and hom, and how she would react when she found out

The glare of the sun was strong outside and she shaded her eyes for a few seconds, getting her bearings, pleased that she had decided to opt for a taxi rather than the Underground She felt exhausted Her parents, who now seemed to be around all the tila their best to feed her up

‘First grandchild for the Thornton line!’ Susie had heard herto her sister, Kate