31 Im Heartless (2/2)

”No. Yes. No.”

”Which is it? Can I change your mind?”

”I'm not available.” She could tell him she had someone else, but she didn't want to lie to him anymore.

”Why not?”

She opened the car door. ”I have no heart.”

”Wait.”

”No.” she said

”Please wait.”

”I have to go.”

”Did you have a bad time? I mean, aside from the rain, no Stonehenge, no country house, no sheep? Aside from the fact that it was a day of disaster upon disaster?”

Gemma wanted to stay in the car. To touch his lips with her fingertips and to relax into being Will and to let the lies build up on each other.

But it would not do.

”Leave me the fuck alone, Paolo,” she snapped. She pushed open the car door and stepped into the downpour.