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York and leave us alone, Charles,” she said with less conviction than she’d hoped.
    “I’ll drive you to work. We can talk in the car.”
    “I have nothing to say to you, Charles.”
    “Then listen to what I have to say.”
    She wanted to keep him away from Preston, so she gave in and allowed him to drive her to the diner.
    “How did you find me?”
    “I had the investigator who works for the firm track you down.”
    She cut right to the chase. “Couldn’t you have told me we were through? Did you have to flaunt my replacement in my face?”
    Charles paled as if all his blood had suddenly been drained. “What the hell are you talking about?”
    He was a good actor. She’d give him that. “The dark-haired woman I saw you with in Monte’s.”
    Charles pulled to the side of the road and stopped the car. The look on his face was one of sheer agony. A moment later he was pounding the steering wheel with his fists. He uttered two words. “Fucking Bitch!”
    Jade guessed he didn’t like to be found out. No one ever did. Why should he be any different?
    Suddenly he turned to face her. She couldn’t miss the pain in his eyes. Could he fake that? He sighed, shaking his head, as if trying to compose his thoughts. “Dear God! Now it all makes sense. All this time trying to figure what I’d done…what caused you to run without a single word or a simple goodbye.”
    “I certainly got yours,” she reminded him.
    He shook his head. “That was staged.”
    “Yeah. And, honey, it sure was convincing.”
    “Not by me. Damn it! It was Caroline.”
    “Caroline? That’s right, blame it on the wife—”
    He grabbed her by her shoulders. “For Christ’s sake, Jade, shut up and listen to me—”
    “Why? It was you I saw with that woman.”
    He pursed his lips, shaking his head as he released her. Then he gave out a short derisive laugh. “That entire scene was staged by my charming wife. It was payback.”
    “For us? You told me you had an agreement. That she didn’t care.”
    He shook his head. “I wouldn’t let her take Stephen to some expensive spa in Switzerland for the summer.”
    “And the woman?”
    “Posed as a potential client.”
    Jade’s mind was getting tangled as it tried to wrap around all this information. She could hardly explain all the emotions that were swirling in her head as she grasped what he was telling her. It wouldn’t have been hard for some private investigator to discover that he and Jade met at Monte’s often. And she’d played right into Caroline’s hand. What a fool she’d been not to trust Charles!
    “I knew Caroline was a devious bitch. I just didn’t think she’d go so far as to destroy…” His words trailed off in despair.
    “She wouldn’t have been able to had I trusted you, Charles.”
    “After your bad experience with your ex, how could you have reacted any differently?”
    Tears slipped down Jade’s cheeks as she mourned all the wasted time—and for what? “Can you forgive me, Charles?”
    “For running away... yes.”
    She let her breath out, but nearly choked when he added, “But not for hiding my son from me.”
    She understood how he felt and offered no argument. She’d been a fool.
    “Jade, there are no certainties in life and I have no idea what lies ahead. All I know is that I want to see it through together—all three of us. Will you come back to New York?”
    “But what about Caroline?” she asked, worried about the fallout when she found out about Preston.
    “When Stephen is a little older, I intend to get a divorce.”
    Charles reached over and wiped Jade’s tears. A moment later, his lips covered hers in a soft kiss.
    “Oh, Charles,” she half-said, half-moaned and kissed him back with enough fervor to start a fire.
    The world faded away and all she saw was Charles. His lips fought for domination over hers. She grabbed his hair, and met his challenge with her own. Their tongues joined the fray and dueled for possession of their