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  The onslaught stopped as suddenly as it had started.

  For a while I stayed there, scraping the gunk off; my head spinning with her threats. ‘You’re off your trolley!’ I shouted after her. But I was determined. She can do whatever she likes, but I was free of her. She had no hold over me whatsoever. If I want to go out with Poppy, I will, and if I decide to ask her to marry me, I will. In fact, the idea seemed more attractive by the minute.

  I got into the car, switched on the engine and shifted into gear. ‘Mad as a hatter!’ I muttered. ‘She wants locking up!’

  I was furious, ‘It’d do her good to be put in a cell like me and Dickie.’

  That got me thinking about the past few days, and a little smile spread, and then I was laughing out loud. ‘I’m a disaster area!’

  But you know what?

  I’m just glad to be alive, and if my crazy control freak of an ex thinks she can stop me from seeing Poppy, she’s got another thing coming, because from now on, nobody, but nobody is going to tell me what to do!

  When I got home, I discovered that she’d let all my tyres down. The thing is, I thought that funny, flapping sound was my stomach rumbling. I guess I was lost in Poppy’s kiss!

  WHAT AM I LIKE!

  Also by Josephine Cox

  QUEENIE’S STORY

  Her Father’s Sins

  Let Loose the Tigers

  THE EMMA GRADY TRILOGY

  Outcast

  Alley Urchin

  Vagabonds

  Angels Cry Sometimes

  Take This Woman

  Whistledown Woman

  Don’t Cry Alone

  Jessica’s Girl

  Nobody’s Darling

  Born to Serve

  More than Riches

  A Little Badness

  Living a Lie

  The Devil You Know

  A Time for Us

  Cradle of Thorns

  Miss You Forever

  Love Me or Leave Me

  Tomorrow the World

  The Gilded Cage

  Somewhere, Someday

  Rainbow Days

  Looking Back

  Let It Shine

  The Woman Who Left

  Jinnie

  Bad Boy Jack

  The Beachcomber

  Lovers and Liars

  Live the Dream

  The Journey

  Journey’s End

  The Loner

  Songbird

  Born Bad

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