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‘I haven’t been behaving like a child and I don’t want you around all the ti under my feet!’

Was that what he thought? That she was like a kid who needed to be told which road to follow because she was too siht that she had gone fro the woman he wanted to someone he felt he had to look after All his consideration for her over the past few ht, had removed her sexuality

‘Too bad’ Sergio’s voice hardened ‘Needs must’

They drove the remainder of the way in silence It was a quick drive, because at this hour the roads were clear She knew that he would see her into the house, as indeed he did, and all the while she thought about hi space with her, sitting in the little snug with her watching television

She thought about the way they had been with one another before her pregnancy had forced his into perspective And then i on that narrow, unco scanned, her stoaze

What had been going on in his er lovers? Impatience that he had had to coh to look after herself? Frustration that he had e with someone out of his comfort zone just because he had liked her novelty value, only to find hi forced to have her as an ongoing concern because of a child he hadn’t wanted in the first place?

‘So what ti? Perhaps you could letto pan out?’

She conte fro her like so her the way her parents and her sister treated her When she thought like that she felt sick

‘Here’s how it’s going to pan out’ Sergio looked at her evenly ‘I’ to set up camp in the downstairs den There’s a desk there already It’ll do for when I want to use it I’ll transfer over my desktop computer so that I have both e for a dedicated line to be put in so that you won’t be plagued with calls coh I can useso far?’

‘Constricting,’ Susie said with utter dejection

He frowned at her ‘You have the night to get used to the prospect’