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‘No, wait a minute’ Ruthlessly he cut across her words in a way he’d avoided doing of late, leaning across the table and glaring at her ‘Are you tellingother women?’

Ellie didn’t reply, not i enough to hang on to her co herself that this was the only solution She couldn’t keep him chained up like a taht word—’

‘Maybe you want to watch?’ he suggested crudely ‘Perhaps that’s one of your fantasises Does the thought ofsex with somebody else turn you on, Ellie?’

‘Don’t be so disgusting!’ she snapped, feeling her cheeks growing hot ‘That’s not what I meant at all and you know it’

‘Do I?’ he deiveto have sex with so under my roof?’

She glared back ‘I wasn’t giving youto be fair!’

‘Fair?’ he echoed, furiously

‘Yes, fair’ She took a shaky sip of water ‘I know you’re a virile man with a healthy sexual appetite and I shouldn’t expect you to have to curtail that, just because’

‘Because you no longer want me?’

Ellie sed as shefrom his blue eyes Oh, if only If only it were as simple as that ‘It’s not that I don’t want you’

‘You just takewide-eyed foryou’re in the room next door?’

‘I told you before I can’t do fake intimacy And I didn’t start this conversation to discuss the reasons why I won’t sleep with you’

‘Then why did you start it?’