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She turned on her answering machine and listened drily to the succession of calls she had had fro in one that threatened dis him immediately Sian turned off theThat was soon enough for her It would have to be soon enough for Leo, too

She overslept, exhausted by the events of the weekend, and had to rush her breakfast before dashing to work She hadn't had ti papers as usual, but she was only a little late when at last she reached the office As she walked through the newsrooht the subterranean whispers and her teeth met

They must all know about her involve about it all weekend Sian was grateful that they only knew the public part of the story They wouldn't have any idea what had happened between her and Williaht

'Leo wants you,' one of the other reporters said The front page of one of their coht sight of her own face in a huge picture doe

'What the…' she began, snatching up the paper

'Yes, it's you,' Carl said with dry aets hold of you you're for it Where do we bury the pieces?'

Sian was frantically skiraph The other papers didn't ot this snap of her with Cass outside the hospital theafter she and Annette had slept at the Cassidy house, and from the way the story had been written the obvious i Annette in Cass's life

'Are you?' asked the other reporter, and Sian looked up dazedly

'What?'

'The neo

'Go to hell!' Sian said, throwing the paper down and rushing towards Leo's office to assure him that it was a stupid lie, a typical invention of the other paper, and that there was nothing between her and Cass at all She had to stop Leothe story in their own pages He was quite capable of getting someone to write up a folloith all sorts of e the first ridiculous lie She had to stop him

CHAPTER FIVE

Leo didn't believe a word of it but, when she furiously insisted that there was nothing whatever in the story about her and Cass, he sulkily had to accept that

'But I want so from his chair 'Go and knock out a few coluht away'

'About what? There's nothing to write about, and anyway, I promised…'