Still, she couldn’t keep from considering the pattern, both her mother’s and her own.
First: A Lindell.
Second: Somebody horrid.
Third: Someone neither her mother nor she could resist no matter how either had felt about anyone else at the time.
No one before Simon had meant anything to her. He’d been the first man she’d ever dated that she respected and came to have a deep regard for. Just not deep enough to prevent Charley from enticing her away from him.
He had objected to her leaving him, but as he’d had another project to head right into at the close of Kate, he hadn’t the opportunity to reason with her as he’d desperately wanted to.
She’d gone back home with Charley in her pocket, never gave one thought as to how hurt Simon might have been.
Still, if he’d had the opportunity to
