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An hour later, Erin slid her sunglasses on her face as she exited the building She wished it were as easy to walk away froht knot as it was to walk away fro steps to protect her and her son

While Janet had agreed that her request for more infor things, she felt itas Erin’s lawyer She’d also reco to prove James was Riley’s father

This, of course, engendered its own problems Janet had called an independent laboratory that would courier a testing kit to Erin overnight All she apparently needed was a strand of Jaether with a mouth swab froh DNA to prove paternity

Swabbing Riley’sof James’s, that was another story He’dthat he didn’t want her to hang on to his things unnecessarily Respecting his wishes, after he’d passed she’d donated his clothes to a shelter and distributed specific possessions to his friends as he’d requested His ive to Riley when he was old enough to start asking about his dad But even if she got the his photo albums and awards from which DNA could be extracted

She thought for a moment of the silver-backed clothes brush that she’d also packed away A farandfather, the original Connell of Connell Lodge, she’d carefully wrapped it in acid-free tissue and put it in the box with Ja James use the brush, but maybe there would be a stray hair still locked within its bristles

Satisfied she had a starting point, Erin walked toward the café where Sam had said he’d wait for her She cast a quick look at her watch and groaned inwardly at the ti quite a while Hopefully he was a patient h so that caht of him

And she did think of hihts with next to no effort on his part Into her thoughts and into her drea She was still so newly aShe shouldn’t be having feelings for another ainst the attraction, there was a part of her that relished every moment with him Awake or asleep

In the dark of night she’d tried to rationalize everything She’d gone a long time without intimacy, so it was only natural that she’d nificant time with since Jaot sick, their relationship had not been sensual or physically satisfying for a while

She and Ja before they’d won the lottery run by the IVF clinic that gave the to conceive had turned the focus of their e into a constant round of temperature charts and cycles and performance on command

It was no wonder, really, that two years ago Jaht comfort in another woman’s arms When, almost a whole year later, Erin had discovered his infidelity, he’d lain the bla to him, she’d destroyed every last e with her obsessive quest to becoht a simple, uncomplicated affair with someone who only craved his company and made no other demands upon him

His words had cut deep Erin had always believed they’d wanted the sa the day-to-day running of the business as well as their hopes and drea a stable and loving hoether It hurt to learn that his plans were so different froe vows so easily, but she had accepted that She had even accepted that soies into creating a child with hi his sense of power and ive him for his betrayal of her trust

James had ended his affair after she’d confronted him, and then, in one of those weird twists of fate, they’d won the IVF lottery He had said it would help solidify their nant was off theh the pain of his infidelity had stuck like a splinter in the back of her mind Of course, they hadn’t counted on the bacterial infection that had attacked Jaone fro shell of his fore had never really stood a chance to rebuild