His question sliced through her...a guilty secret tucked away...a secret she had hoped was fading – now suddenly brought back to occupy her thoughts once more.
And to worry her.
After the exposure of their little game Mark immediately felt closer to her and was convinced that it was this charade that had played on her feelings towards him before. Likewise, for Eve, she too felt the lifting of a burden that had grown ever heavier over the weeks with her enforced identity change - but now tinged with that unintentional reminder of 'a secret', a secret he must never discover. And as before, it acted like an invisible but stubborn barrier - a barrier that prevented her committing and revealing her true feelings towards him - in case things should go wrong.
For a few weeks this state of affa
