Aemilia immediately clapped a hand over Olivia's mouth. "HUSH!" she demanded, glancing nervously around the room. She would kill Olivia if anybody had overheard that comment, because that meant that Aemilia's biggest secret would be out in the open. She would no longer be able to sneak around and meet Will without being followed, they would be subjected to publicity and everybody else's opinions, and everything would be ruined! That just couldn't happen!

"He's an actor. On the West End. He's hot and sweet and all that jazz. You really do have to meet him to understand it. And if you breathe a word to anyone, you die. As simple as that."

Aemilia really couldn't help being defensive; she had gone through public romances before, and they weren't happy things. The world watched via tabloids and trashy television programmes, and they thought that just because they could see you, they owned you. And that was entirely wrong.