Chapter Nine

  How could she have sabotaged things for a second time? It’s just sex she tried to tell herself, it doesn’t matter how I feel about him, it was just sex. She could walk away. She would walk away, just like he would eventually. Mia had to brush him off, distract him. Make things simple again but how? The struggle became a trial that Mia couldn’t win, over the next fortnight, as work hedonistically mixed with pleasure. Whenever there was opportunity, they would become intimate. The desk, the bedroom, the boathouse, the riverside, anywhere they could be alone. But Mia felt that somehow it wasn’t helping. Luke was emotionally distant from her and she hated that. Mia needed to build a bridge to reach him, but she needed the right materials to do it. She wante...

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