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Оглавление‘There’s something I should tell you,’ Ava said.
‘Si?’ Gianluca asked.
‘This isn’t the first time we’ve met.’
‘Is that so?’
‘I don’t seem… familiar to you?’
He shrugged.
Ava knew right then that any chance of her making a little joke of it, or him being enchanted, or curious, or even maybe a little regretful had evaporated.
‘I meet many people. Forgive me if I don’t recall your face.’
His tone was reasonable, his words polite. But the sentiments—they stung…
I don’t recall your face. I don’t remember lying in the grass on Palatine Hill cradling you in my arms. I don’t remember a single one of the personal confessions you made because, really, it meant nothing to me.
‘You really don’t remember?’ she persevered.
A look of irritation flashed across those hooded eyes.
‘No doubt you will tell me.’
Ava knew it was irrational. She knew she had no right to expect something so fleeting, so long ago, to have stayed with him as it had with her. She hadn’t realised until that moment how deep she was into this fantasy. She really had to stop it now—unless she was keen on full shake-down humiliation.
‘I’m waiting,’ he said.
