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"I could fight you." Ellie knew Leo wouldn't. He would never have dreamed of doing any such thing.

"You would lose."

"Did you ever?think of me?"

The question jumped out at her and knocked her for a loop. Ellie felt a soft flush creeping into her cheeks. Yes, she had thought of him. She hadn't realized how much until now, that she had seen him again. Unconsciously, she had compared every man she had met to him and had found them all wanting. Logic had helped to keep away the demons but emotions, hidden deep down, had never obeyed logic.

"Well?yes, of course. I mean, you were?my first lover, Leo. It was only natural?."

"But aside from that?"

She could feel the conversation getting into tricky waters, waters with enough undercurrents to drag her down.

"And then when I got pregnant," she carried on quickly, "I couldn't help but think of you. You were the father of my child. But there was no means of getting in touch with you and besides, I've read enough to know that the last thing most men want is to be encumbered with a baby. Especially you."

"Why especially me?"

"Because you had your whole career ahead of you. You were bright and talented and wealthy. A baby would have been like a chain round your ankles for a man like you."

"And it wasn't for you?"

"I?I've never once regretted having William." Because, she now realized, he had always been her constant reminder of the love she had lost.

"You have had three years, more, of our son. Do you not think that I deserve the chance to be a father?" He would remain here until the cows came home, drumming every reason he could think of into her head, but she wasn't going to get away from him again. He felt that in his bones, an unshakable truth.

"Of course you do! And like I said?"

"I could have the job part-time. I know what you said."

"That's not what I meant?."

"And what when you find someone else? Does my part-time role get reduced to nothing? Will my son get used to calling some other man Dad? And what about financial considerations? Do you not think that I might want to support my son? Give him things? Watch him grow?"

"Yes, I suppose?." The undercurrents were back again, this time in a different format, and Ellie frowned as she tried to separate the strands of confused thoughts running through her head.

"How can I watch my son grow from thousands of miles away, across the Atlantic?"

"You don't want me as your wife!" Ellie protested. "You didn't track me down to tell me that you love me and that you still wanted me! You tracked me down to get a divorce so that you could marry someone else!"

"That's true," Leo admitted urgently, "but?"

"But what? You've only changed your mind because of William!"

"I broke it off with Caroline before I knew that William even existed."

"Yes, but?"

"And why do you think that is?"

"Because?" Hope sent up a few tentative shoots, which Ellie stalwartly tried to ignore.

"Because?" he prompted softly. "Follow the thought, Ellie, and tell me what you find?."

To be continued...

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