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but I’m not tearing a family apart. I’m not going to contact him just yet. I don’t even know where he works, I don’t even know his surname...’
    ‘Come off it, Cat.’
    ‘Okay, I looked up the conference attendees and I do know his surname but I can manage—’
    ‘It’s actually not about you and whether or not you can manage,’ Gemma said. ‘And it’s not about his wife and how she’ll react. It’s about the baby, Cat.’ Gemma was as firm as Cat had known she would be. The very questions that she had been wrestling with for weeks were now being voiced by her friend. ‘It’s about your baby, who will grow up and will want to know, and has a right to know, who their father is. Whether or not you want him to be, Dominic has a right to be involved, or not, in his baby’s life.’
    ‘I know all of that,’ Cat said. ‘And I shall tell him, just not yet. Gemma, I’m eleven weeks pregnant. I’m doing my very best to simply get used to that fact. I’m not going to upend his life while I’m still in my first trimester...’
    ‘Oh, but you’ll upend yours. Why the hell should he get away with a few weeks of stress—’
    ‘I’m not stressed,’ Cat said. ‘I was at first but I’m not now. I want this baby and I’m going to do the very best that I can by it. I shall look up Dominic at some point but not now. Not now while I’m still trying to work things out. I need to find out the test results before I tell anyone. I need to know that it’s not going to be happening again...’
    Cat knew she had Gemma’s support and, yes, she could tell her most things but there was something she couldn’t explain to her friend just yet because she didn’t actually understand it herself.
    She missed Dominic.
    Yes, it had been but one weekend and, yes, she was angry, not just with him but herself.
    It was how she would react when she saw him that terrified Cat.
    She knew that she wouldn’t cry and break down if he told her he wanted nothing to do with them—it would come as a relief, in fact.
    And she didn’t want a penny from him either.
    There were two things that terrified her—how he might react to the news if their baby was less than perfect, which was understandable given all that had gone on.
    And how she might react if he took the news well.
    Or, rather, how she might react when she saw him again.
    What if that spark blew all her scruples away?
    The mere thought of his kisses terrified her.
    His smooth talk too.
    She had this awful glimpse of life as a mistress.
    Tucked away in England with her baby.
    And she’d never be that.
    If he was to be in their baby’s life, then it would be without lies.
    Which meant someone was going to get hurt.

CHAPTER SIX
    C AT DID LOOK him up.
    At twenty weeks gestation, when her scan and amnio had come through as clear, Gemma told her that she had no excuse not to.
    It really had been an excuse because whatever the outcome of the tests it wouldn’t have changed the course of the pregnancy for Cat.
    But the results came in before Christmas and Cat had visions of Dominic and his fraught wife and the triplets she had now assigned to him, and decided she couldn’t ruin Christmas for them.
    Or New Year.
    Still, she had looked him up and it had taken about fifteen minutes to find out where he worked.
    She recalled him saying that he liked the architecture in Edinburgh and after a few false starts she found someone who knew him and was told he was now working at a large teaching hospital in Glasgow.
    Ah, that’s right, Cat remembered, he didn’t like to be tied to one place for too long.
    Or one person.
    And so Cat had sat on that knowledge for another month.
    Her second pregnancy threw up so many memories of her first. There were so many thoughts and fears and she wanted to get past the milestone she had reached with Thomas.
    Finally, though, she plucked up the courage to make the call.
    ‘You’re looking for Mr Edwards?’ A cheery female voice, with a heavy