Lovers In The Afternoon

‘Maybe I should have had you followed,’ she glared at him.

‘Oh, I’ve been living very quietly since you left me,’ he dismissed.

‘Quietly doesn’t necessarily mean alone,’ she snapped.

‘In this case it does.’

And she knew the reason for that; Liz had continued to stay with her husband Nick. ‘Look, we’re getting away from the subject,’ Leonie sighed. ‘You’ll have to have someone else do your work for you.’

‘No.’

‘Adam, I will not be bullied by you into doing something I don’t want to do.’

He held up his hand defensively. ‘Have I tried to bully you? Did I bully you into anything tonight?’ he added throatily.

Her mouth tightened. Tonight had been incredible, there was no denying that, and plenty of women would be only too agreeable to the sort of non-committal relationship Adam was now offering her. But not her. She had made a fool of herself over this man once, she wasn’t going to do it again.

‘Admit it was everything you thought it could be,’ he encouraged softly. ‘No complications of marriage, other people, just you and me making beautiful love together.’

Just talking about the experience made her body tingle. ‘But it couldn’t stay that way indefinitely,’ she reasoned impatiently. ‘Sooner or later one of us would expect more——’

‘Not me,’ Adam assured her with finality. ‘I’ve tried being married to you; it didn’t work out.’

She swallowed down the pain his casual admission of their year together caused. It hadn’t worked out, she would be the first to admit that, but to hear Adam talk so casually about the commitment they had made caused a constriction in her chest, as if someone had physically struck her.