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"So how do we?get a divorce?" Just saying the words felt a little unreal. Here she was, in a marriage that she could not remember getting into, although little bits were beginning to creep back into her head like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle slowly coming together, and with a child about whom her husband had no idea. Husband and wife. Ludicrous, unsettling, frightening.

"That bit I haven't as yet checked out," Leo admitted. He leaned forward, resting his arms on his thighs, closing the distance between them. Seduction was beckoning to him like the finger of Fate. He had fallen in love with her; she had treated him as a therapeutic dalliance, a passing cure for her problems. A score needed settling and he had never before run away from settling scores. Oh, no. It wasn't in his blood. Caroline was an arrangement but this was old business. He would deal with it.

"Do we need to go back to Las Vegas?" Ellie chewed her lip worriedly. "I couldn't possibly do that. I? My job? And besides, I just don't have the money?." Not to mention the small problem of their son, the son he didn't know about. She felt faint.

"Oh, I shouldn't think that would be necessary." He lightly reached out to hold the tips of her fingers, softly stroking them and she snatched her hand away.

"What are you doing!"

"We were good together, weren't we," he murmured. He watched as she drew away. "Have you had many other lovers since me?"

"I should go?."

"Why? Now that our little problem is out in the open, where's the harm in chatting like two adults? Besides, I still have a few questions to ask you?."

"Questions like what?"

"Why did you run away like that?"

"I? My flight back home?"

"Truth."

Ellie could feel his masculine presence surrounding her until she could barely breathe. He seemed to have edged closer to her somehow. His knees were practically touching hers and her fingers were still tingling from their brief contact with his hand.

What was going on here?

"Well?" he pressed softly, mesmerizingly.

"I?" She remembered giggling as they drove through, signing her name, looking up at him adoringly and his eyes laughing back at her. Two carefree people signing their lives away. She must have blanked out the memory, shoved it away somewhere and now it was coming back out of its hiding place. "You wouldn't understand?." Her voice was half-pleading.

"Try me."

Suddenly telling him didn't seem important anymore. Why should it? He was part of her history now.

What she did about William was another matter, something she would sort out in due course.

"I wasn't?the kind of girl you thought I was. Like I said, it was all a bit of a game, a bit of a laugh, playacting. But when we got back to the hotel, well, it wasn't playacting anymore and?and?I know it seems ridiculous but I was?twenty-one and I had never?"

He was looking at her with growing incredulity. It would have been comical if she had taken time out to observe him from a distance, but Ellie was caught up in her own mortification, still alive and kicking after four years.

"You were a virgin," he said in amazement.

"Shh!" Ellie looked around her and lowered her voice, bright red with remembered embarrassment. "Didn't you know? Hadn't you guessed? I never looked at the sheets. I assumed?"

"No, there was no indication. A virgin?" The urge to touch her, feel her intensified until he was aching with it. "And now?" he murmured. "Have you saved yourself for when I came back??"

To be continued...



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