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‘Oh, well, that makes it fine, then!’ Her voice thick with tears, Kelly yanked at the dress and pushed it off her body as if it were infectious. ‘I see the label now.’ She snatched the dress off the floor and stared at the elegant ‘By Marianna’ that had been discreetly hand-sewn onto a seam of the dress. ‘I’m a complete and utter fool.’

‘Confidence?’ She whirled round, her hair tumbling down from the elegant clip that had restrained it all evening. ‘You think it gives me confidence to be told in public that I’m wearing a dress designed by your ex-girlfriend?’
‘I did not know that Tatiana was going to make the connection.’

‘Why are you staring at my dress?’
Tatiana laughed, a sound like glass shattering. ‘It’s by Marianna, isn’t it? Lucky you. She only designs for the favoured few. Completely impossible to get hold of any of her pieces.’ She gave Alekos a knowing smile. ‘Unless you have a particular place in her heart, of course.’

He hadn’t mentioned marriage.
He hadn’t said ‘I love you’.

‘Theé mou, I am truly sorry for what I put you through.’ His voice was hoarse and he reached across the table and caught her hand. ‘I didn’t think about the press or the attention that would be focused on you.’
‘That’s because you live your life behind high walls and you have security men who make the Incredible Hulk look puny.’

Why are women always so incredibly conscious about their weight?’
‘Because men are incredibly shallow,’ Kelly said with dignity, swinging her legs off the sun lounger.

Had she no self-respect?