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couple of days together. Well, a day and a bit,” he amended.
    â€œSo when were you planning on actually breaking the news? Tomorrow afternoon, on the way back to the airport? My God, I can’t believe we’re here having this conversation. I thought we were happy and all this time you’ve been gearing yourself up to do this.” Nadia shook her head in disbelief. “How long ago did you decide?”
    â€œNad, please, I feel bad enough as it is. Over the last few weeks, I suppose.” Laurie was looking thoroughly miserable.
    â€œA few weeks ? Oh, great. So when I was stranded in the snow a fortnight ago telling that bloke how fantastically happy we were together, you were already planning the best way to dump me! Do you have any idea how stupid that makes me feel? Just think,” Nadia rattled on, “if you’d told me in an email, I could have shagged him after all. And I would have, you know, I would have.”
    â€œLook, I’m sorry, I thought this was the best way.”
    â€œOh yes, it’s perfect, perfect! I’m ecstatic that you chose this way, I’m loving every minute! My boyfriend’s very thoughtfully dumping me in my favorite restaurant. I’m fairly sure he’s seeing someone else, although he doesn’t have the guts to admit it—”
    â€œNo one else,” said Laurie.
    â€œAnd best of all, he tells me I haven’t even done anything wrong! Which makes me feel so much better. Really.” Nadia swallowed, she was trembling and her eyes were feeling dangerously hot. “It’s just fabulous.”
    â€œBut we can’t carry on like this, never seeing each other. My booker at the agency’s got me working nonstop for the next eight months.” Laurie struggled to explain. “All over Europe, Australia, Japan, the States…”
    â€œFine. You don’t have to explain. I’m not going to beg, if that’s what you’re worried about.” Nadia had had enough. She felt sick. Then a thought occurred to her that made her feel sicker still. “And you weren’t going to tell me until tomorrow.” She marveled at Laurie’s selfishness. “But we were going to spend the night together. We’d have made…” no, not made love, “…we’d have had sex, and you’d have known it was for the last time, but I wouldn’t have known that, because you wouldn’t have told me. Well, that’s a really thoughtful finishing touch. What a shame it isn’t going to happen now. We’re both going to miss out on The Last Time.”
    It would have been nice, at this point, to have stalked out of the restaurant and disappeared into the black night. If she’d been in a film she would have done it.
    But it wasn’t a film, this was real life and it was raining outside. Quite honestly, she didn’t see why she should be expected to fork out for a taxi.
    Damn , she had a git of a boyfriend.
    Ex-boyfriend.
    Oh hell, this was going to be weird.
    â€œI want to leave. I need a taxi. Give me twenty pounds,” Nadia demanded.
    â€œNo.”
    â€œBastard.”
    Laurie shook his head. “I really want us to stay friends.”
    â€œWell, I don’t. Sod off.”
    â€œNadia, this hasn’t been easy. I’m only doing it because it’s for the best.”
    That old line again.
    â€œOh, do me a favor,” Nadia hissed across the table. “You’re dumping me because you want to spend the next eight months shagging your way around Paris and Milan and New York and Sydney and Tokyo, because you’re a jet-setter now and jet-setters only have sex with It-girls and supermodels.”
    â€œIt’s not that,” said Laurie.
    â€œIsn’t it? I don’t really care anyway.” Of course, this was a massive lie, but it was still going to happen whether she cared or not. Her happy life was crumbling before her eyes like sugar