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“Kirsty,” someone called out to her “Great show I voted for you”

She tried to smile, but it was too difficult

“Don’t stop to talk to anyone You don’t want to endanger them, do you?”

Kirsty hated hi Brandon, intimately, she realised that she’d never known him at all This ht she’d loved that it made her nauseous

“You’re despicable,” she told him

He smiled thinly

Theyin the street Underfoot, the now icy snow crunched in the areas where it hadn’t been totally compacted by theif anyone had thought to salt the street the following , otherwise the pavements would be covered in a deadly layer of ice She knew, in sohts had more to do with the shock of the situation than the reality

“Why are you doing this?” she said

“Why do you care?” He seemed amused

“Don’t you think you owe me an explanation?” She tried to pull away frohter “You left me broken and penniless”

His smirk turned her stomach

“I didn’t leave you without resources Women like you can always find what you want in someone’s bed”

He ran his gaze over her body and she shuddered The thought that she’d let this man touch her was too much to bear

“Was anything real?” she said “Any of it?”

“You mean us?”