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Inwardly, I was a mess. Lucas seemed to be behaving like nothing had happened between us and it was driving me crazy. How could he just write off a night like that as not worth talking about?

By the time we were ready to leave, I couldn’t wait to get out of there. If Lucas wanted to play things cool, he was going to discover I could be ice cold.

Chapter 14

“Is everything okay?” Lucas asked as we pulled up outside Ivy’s house.

“Absolutely peachy,” I said, getting out of the car.

“Milly? What’s wrong? You’ve barely said a word all morning.”

“You be a good girl for Daddy.” I ignored Lucas as I went round to the back of the car and opened the door so I could give Amber a kiss goodbye.

“I will,” Amber promised, her eyes wide and serious.

“We’re going to have a lot of fun together, aren’t we, Amber?” Lucas said.

“Yay!” Amber kicked her feet against the car seat and I slammed the car door shut. I blew a kiss at the car and waved as Lucas drive off.

The vindictive side of me hoped that Amber was an absolute nightmare in the way that only an annoying four-year-old could be, but I had a feeling she was going to be a little angel for her beloved Daddy.

It just wasn’t fair.

I knocked on Ivy’s door.

“Milly!” My best friend opened the door and was surprised to see me standing there.

“Hey, Ivy. It’s not a bad time is it? I can go home if you want me to. Well, you’ll have to let me borrow a car, but I can leave if you’ve got something else on.

“Of course not. Don’t be silly. Come in, come in.” She ushered me inside. “What’s wrong? Where’s Amber?”

“I agreed to let Lucas have her for the day,” I said.

“So it’s going well with him then?”

I looked at her. “I think I’ve made a big mistake.”

“Let’s go to the conservatory and we can talk about it.” She raised her voice. “Romy! Can you deal with Louis for me? Ivy’s here.”

“Sure!” Romy, one of Ivy’s partners, called back from somewhere in the house.

“You look like you need tea,” Ivy observed. “Or something stronger. Do you want something stronger?”

“I want it but I don’t think it’ll be a good idea,” I told her. “I’d probably end up crying into my glass.”

“That bad, huh?”

“You have no idea.”

We went through to the conservatory and Ivy picked up the intercom to order some tea from the kitchen. Soon there was a tray of tea things on the table while Ivy and I sat in chairs with incredible views over the Archaic estate.

“Do you want to tell me what’s up?” Ivy asked. “Actually, don’t. Let me guess. You slept with Lucas.”

I nodded miserably.

“Oh,Milly.What were you thinking?”

“I wasn’t really. It’s been so long since I’ve been with anyone and I never did get closure with Lucas. One thing led to another and here we are.”

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