Though this had not been his behavior with Trisha.
‘I want to be clear,’ Ned said at last, pushing up his glasses. ‘I don’t intend to have any kind of relationship with you.’
‘That is possible,’ Leo said mildly.
A hesitation. ‘Yes?’
‘At this stage, anything is possible.’
Ned eyed him, almost sniffing the air, as if attempting to detect the shitty part of this hand. And of course there was one. ‘What do you want?’
‘Why don’t you tell me first what it is that you’d like. Please. Be thorough.’
‘Obviously it’s simple. I would like the videos and photographs and whatever else you have of me destroyed. They could do great damage… they could ruin a lot of innocent lives.’
‘Okay,’ Leo said, and then directed toward Ned a look of such genuine fondness that out of reflex the man actually smi
