Alexei stretched out his arms and then dropped them again in a volatile gesture of frustration and impatience. 'I'm not listening to this nonsense again. Nothing you have told me justifies your behaviour. You've got nothing left to say. Lies are lies, no matter what the circumstances. I won't live with them or forgive them.'
White with anger, he studied her standing there in his half-buttoned shirt, her tangle of colourful red hair spread round her shoulders. He dealt her a bitter look of cynicism. 'We're over, we've got to be. Sizzling s*x isn't enough to keep me with you,' he delivered with harsh emphasis, and this time when he turned to leave she said nothing and she made no attempt to bring him back.
That evening after Billie had tucked Nicky up for the night in her own home, she fou
