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"So you won't be going to the wedding then?" I asked She paused and smiled at me

"No, Olivia You can have him all to yourself" I felt the heat rise up my neck and into my face "That's not funny anymore, Belinda I wasn't the one in the boathouse You were"

"Yes, but you wished you were," she countered

I felt as if the air around us had grown too hot to breathe

"Your husband kno you feel about Nelson," she continued

"Did you say so stupid to Samuel?"

"No, but he knows I can tell" She started to pack again "You and he aren't exactly sweethearts, sleeping in separate rooms in separate beds"

"That's none of your affair"

"No," she said laughing "It's not and I'h of a chance to prove hi my fury "Maybe if you did, you wouldn't dream so much about Nelson Childs"

"Stop it!"

"All I'ood lover Isn't he?"

"I won't continue this stupid conversation any longer, but I warn you, if you should say any of this rubbish to anyone and I hear about it"

"You'll throw me out of the fah to say anything I' fun"

"At our expense Don't you ever want toof your life?" I asked her

"I think I aood time of it"