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fighting the idea and then getting used to it. A private person, she revealed only when she was ready.
    And tonight she was.
    ‘How long have you known?’ Gemma asked.
    ‘A couple of weeks after the twins were christened,’ Cat said. ‘I tried to put it out of my mind, what with my exams and everything. I decided to work out how I felt when I was on leave.’
    ‘And how do you feel?’ Gemma asked, struggling to put back on her obstetrician’s hat.
    ‘Well, I’m going to be terrified until I have the tests and get all the results back...’
    ‘The chances of it happening again are minimal,’ Gemma said.
    ‘I know they are.’
    ‘But you shan’t relax till they’re in.’ Gemma smiled gently and Cat nodded. ‘Apart from that, how do you feel?’
    ‘I still don’t know,’ Cat admitted. ‘I don’t know if I’m happy or worried or anything really.’
    ‘You know that I’m here for you, whatever you decide.’
    ‘I do and even if I haven’t been ready to speak about it till now, it’s helped a lot to know that.’
    Gemma opened the champagne.
    For herself.
    She didn’t even bother with a glass!
    ‘What about Rick? How did he take it?’
    ‘It isn’t Rick’s.’
    ‘Then who—’
    ‘I don’t want to discuss that.’
    ‘Now, hold on a minute,’ Gemma said. ‘You’re not my patient yet—you’re my friend so we
are
going to discuss that. What happened in Spain?’
    ‘How do you know that it was in Spain?’
    ‘Because you’ve been different since then, and also you don’t top up your tan by sitting in a hotel room.’
    ‘Yes, it was then,’ Cat admitted. ‘I met someone but it was never going to be going anywhere. It was supposed to be a bit of fun, a weekend of no consequence...’ She gave a wry smile. ‘We were careful...’
    ‘You have no idea how many times I hear that a day,’ Gemma said.
    ‘We used condoms.’
    ‘Note the plural,’ Gemma said. ‘Was it a sex-fest, then?’
    ‘I guess.’
    ‘You dirty girl.’ Gemma grinned.
    ‘Okay, I can tell you what happened now.’ And so she told Gemma all about the hair appointment that hadn’t happened and the missing luggage. ‘I ended up wearing your dress for the presentation,’ Cat explained. ‘I felt like a fish out of water at first but then I started to enjoy myself. I felt a bit like my old self. Anyway, he made it very clear from the start that he was only interested in the weekend and nothing more...’ Cat thought about the moment when he had asked her to stay on for longer but she shoved that aside. It didn’t matter now. ‘At first I was going to tell him to get lost, he’s not my usual type at all, but then...’ She shrugged. ‘I decided that a weekend of no-strings fun was better than six months of starting out all hopeful and then slowly finding out that a relationship wasn’t working.’
    ‘And was it?’
    ‘For a while,’ Cat said.
    ‘So, what’s his name?’
    ‘Dominic,’ she replied.
    ‘And have you told him about the baby?’ Gemma asked.
    ‘He’s married.’ Cat made herself say it. They stood in the spare room that would soon be a nursery in silence. It was Cat who broke it. ‘I’m sorry, Gemma...’
    ‘You don’t have to say sorry to me,’ Gemma said. ‘After all, it wasn’t Nigel who you slept with.’
    ‘I know, but even so.’ There were tears in Cat’s eyes. She still couldn’t quite believe how careless she’d been. ‘I didn’t know that he was married right until the end—the bastard had taken off his ring and tucked it in his wallet. I probably didn’t ask enough questions,’ she admitted. ‘He seemed very direct to me. He didn’t seem the sort of person who would cheat, which says a lot about my gauge for guys...’
    ‘Well, whether he’s married or not,’ Gemma said, and Cat knew that her friend’s doctor’s hat was firmly on now, ‘Dominic still has a responsibility towards the baby...’
    Cat shook her head. ‘It might be a bit late to be thinking of it