The Affair

Follow your heart”. Because no matter what anyone thinks of me, that’s what I intend to do. I have no choice. It’s the way I’m made.’

In company, they could be a proper couple in love rather than a pair of guilty adulterers.

They’re hopelessly addicted

they were utterly enthralled by each other. They hung on every word the other spoke, sparking off one another’s thoughts, constantly watching the tiniest movements of a hand, or the recrossing of a leg, or the scratching of a minor itch. There was a current of electricity running between them that made them seem alert to the other’s every breath and heartbeat.

‘There’s nothing like a spot of fisticuffs to stoke the flames of passion.

She’s jealous, poor thing.

Some people just liked to stick their noses into other people’s business.

She uncurled herself from the chair, moving languorously, her thoughts already with her lover.

Don’t you think he was destroyed by love? He fell apart when he realised Cleopatra had turned her back on him?’

Her voice softened as she said her lover’s name, and she shifted her legs beneath her.