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‘And you’d prefer that I was the bad guy I get your sister pregnant, but it’s you who have to be there to hold her hand while she’s dying and bring up one This record is not one to inspire confidence or trust, I can see that, but right now I aet to know my son’

‘I don’t blame you for what happened to Abby’

‘Why the hell not? If the positions were reversed I would’

Scarlet looked around for soet into

With an exasperated grunt Roers and spun her around to face him

‘Your friendto do with this, but when I met her she seemed very interested in my relationship with Sam and you’

‘I didn’t know you’d met her’

‘The other day when I was arriving she just happened to be co out her door and you said yourself that Isobel was hard up for cash Hasn’t her husband lost his job?’

‘You’re saying she wasn’t hened her voice

‘I’m sure she liked you too, but maybe she saay to reat to resist It’s incredible how flexible your principles can become when you’ve no money for the rent’

‘You don’t even sound angry!’ she gasped, raising tear-filled eyes to his face

‘Do you think nobody who said they were my friend has ever done the dirty on me?’ he asked

‘It’s awful No wonder you’re so horribly cynical,’ she observed ‘Not,’ she added with a sniff, ‘that I’ to condemn someone without proof’

‘Quite right, I’ out a possibility’

He scanned her ivory-pale face and walked over to the fridge and withdrew a half-open bottle of wine froers around it ‘You’re in shock and it should be brandy, but I don’t suppose you keep any spirits’p????e

‘I have no secrets fro teeth

‘Drink the lot,’ he insisted, standing over her to make sure she did as he ordered ‘Feel any better?’