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Because he acted as if they were no ues She hadn’t expected him to continue to pursue her, but she hadn’t expected such a drastic change fro weekend either

Thank goodness she’d gotten her period, that an unplanned pregnancy hadn’t resulted from her weekend of foolish fantasy

Despite the additional time she had at home with Yoda, time she’d desperately wanted, she wasn’t happy, was actually quite miserable

Was actually quite lonely

She missed Vale

All the extra hours she’d put in had never seemed like work because she’d been with him

Noas a drudgery She had to force herself to go in each limpse, would only be from a distance, because he avoided her, acted as if she had the plague

Even Kay coe in the relationship between and Vale, asking Faith if she was okay Everyone else in the office had either not noticed or failed to comment, probably the latter

“Faith?” Kay beeped Faith’s office “Sharon Wakefield Woodard is on the phone for you She called in on Vale’s private line Do you want to take the call or shall I take a e?”

“Faith Fogarty,” she said into the phone, confused why Vale’s cousin would be calling her Surely she’d only just returned from her honeymoon?

Sharon didn’t bother with pleasantries, actually sounded a bit perturbed “We need to do lunch”

Do lunch? Faith glanced over her schedule for the day, saw that she was booked full with patients, including a folloith Mr Anderson Except for lunch, of course Ha “I’ed, not sure how Vale would feel about her having lunch with his cousin

“Nonsense Of course you can meet me for lunch” Sharon dismissed her objections in pure Wakefield expectation of the world bending to their will “You’re a brain doctor, so that ht?”

“Uh, right,” Faith said sloondering where Sharon was going with her question

“Steve had an affair,” Sharon confessed, her tone going up several octaves “Vale says I should just forget it, that the affair happened in the past, but I can’t forget so like that, can I? Steve cheated on ain? How can I ever trust him?”