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Chapter Thirty-Five
Iread Lorenzo’s messages again for what must have been the hundredth time.
Lorenzo
Hello, Sophia
Lorenzo
How are you?
Lorenzo
Sorry. I know it has been a long time. but I am in London.
Lorenzo
For work
Lorenzo
Would be nice to see you.
Lorenzo
Miss you.
It wasn’t often that I was speechless, but…
He’s in London?
Why?
Yes. I’d read the message enough times to know he’d said he was working, but I didn’t get it. What about Taste Holidays? Why had he stopped working there? Had he been sacked for sleeping with another guest? Had he quit?
How long had he been in London for? Where and how long was he staying?
So many questions. My head was spinning.
Well, the only way to find out would be toactuallyreply. But it wasn’t that simple.
This was a guy I hadn’t heard from for months. Who’d stood me up in Florence. A man whose messages to me (which only ever seemed to come when I initiated contact first) were bland and demonstrated lack of interest. Yet now all of a sudden he missed me? What a fucking cheek.
He’d probably arrived in London today and thought,Oh shit, it’s been twenty-four hours since I last had sex. Where can I get some for free? I know. I’ll message that desperate woman fromthe cookery holiday. She’s bound to say yes if I string her some BS about missing her.Well, I wasn’t going to fall for his tricks. Not this time. Once bitten, twice shy. What’s that quote I read somewhere? ‘Make a mistake once and it becomes a lesson. Make the same mistake twice and it becomes a choice.’
Exactly. Fuck you, Lorenzo.
But shouldn’t you at least reply to find out why he’s here before you dismiss him and make assumptions?
Oh, Reasanna. Get the hell out of my head with your logic. Surely I’d be mad to even give him the time of day. Why waste my time and risk getting hurt again?
But aren’t you a little curious, Sophia? Is there any harm in messaging him to find out? Nothing ventured, nothing gained, right?
Okay, okay, okay.
But I wasdefinitelynot bothering with that overthinking or planning what I was going to say again. Let’s just get this over with. I started typing out a reply:
Me
