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She’d returned to town, prepared to tell Ethan, only to find hiain This time she’d been detero, as Tyler had been getting ready to enter first grade, she’d decided to make another attempt to tell Ethan Which had led to the conversation with his wife and the letter telling her that he didn’t want anything to do with her and his son

None of this s, but stupid wasn’t one of theet about his own child Unless he really hadn’t been told Which meant his wife had kept the information of Liz’s visit fro on?"

"I don’t know" She pushed to her feet "At the risk of repeating myself, Rayanne never told you that I caht"

"You never wrote me a letter"

"No"

"So you don’t know about any of this?"

"Any of what?" he asked

She sucked in a breath She’d known there was a good chance she would run into Ethan again Or his wife Or both But she’d never i like this

"I caan "No, I came back a feeeks after I left, but you were in bed with Pia"

"What?" He stiffened "I didn’t…" He half turned away, then faced her again "It’s not what you think"

"I thought you were both nad and in bed," she said, struggling to keep her voice even "It doesn’taround with Pia isn’t the point"

"I didn’t screw around"

"No? Then your intense and ful relationship isn’t the point, either I canant When I saw you in bed with Pia, I took off I was too hurt, too angry You’d denied hted in tor ht? The point is, I alanted you to know So I showed up here five years ago to tell you about Tyler I spoke to Rayanne and told her Then I got a letter fro to do with me or Tyler and to stay away from town" A letter apparently written by Rayanne

Ethan stared at her as if he’d never seen her before Eer

"Tyler isn’t your husband?"

"He’s my son Your son He’s eleven And he’s here"

CHAPTER THREE

ETHAN HEARD THE WORDS BUT THEY made no sense to him Son? As in a kid? An eleven-year-old boy as his?

"You never told h he couldn’t feel hi to make sense of the information A baby? No Not a baby A child His child