t suddenly. ‘I really—really hate you for coming in here like this!’
‘I heard a scream, came out to investigate and saw someone leaving here,’ he felt compelled to explain. ‘There was something in the way he moved that made me—Rachel—’ he changed tack anxiously ‘—you’re shaking so badly you look like you’re going to collapse. Let me—’
‘Don’t touch me,’ she breathed, then quite suddenly her legs gave away on her and she sank, folding like a piece of limp rubber down onto the edge of the rumpled bed.
Standing there, Elliot was uncertain as to what to do next. She didn’t want him near her, she wanted him to go, but there was no way he could do that without making sure she was fit to be left on her own. His eyes fell on the hot-pink dress, then the scrappy pink b*a lying beside it. His skin
