Search Results for: Five years after I ran from that family while pregnant, they invited me to my ex-husband's wedding and put me at the table by the kitchen doors. I brought three four-year-olds in velvet tuxedos

All three of them have Alaric’s grey eyes and his dark hair, and that is the whole of what they got from him.

I left that house at nine weeks pregnant and I did not tell him. I was twenty-nine and frightened and I had watched what Rowena Branmoor did to people in rooms with lawyers in them, and I decided that if she knew about a pregnancy she would take it apart.

So I went, and I did not say why, and I have had five years to think about that decision.

I worked. I built a marketing agency out of a rented flat with three cots in the room and I am now one of the larger independents in the country, and I will not be putting the number here.

I rang my assistant on the Tuesday.

“Clear Saturday. And ring the tailor.”