It was close to nine o’clock when Zoe managed to put Yanni to sleep. She was about to hop into the shower when Ella came. She looked like a lost soul in the dark of night.

Zoe got worried and immediately led her inside. “What brought you here in the middle of the night?”

Ella felt a lump in her throat and gave herself a moment. Her eyes turned red and she murmured, “I saw Leslie earlier tonight!”

Zoe was stunned by the news.

Gripping her sleeves tightly, Ella continued, “I’m scared that Farley might leave me when he finds out about my ugly past. I did tell him about some of it. As far as he was concerned, I was in a relationship and had a miscarriage, but he didn’t know that it was with Leslie.”

The tone in her voice was enough to tell Zoe that her friend cared a lot about what Farley thought of her and her history.

Lowering her head, she wiped the tears off of Ella’s face and tried to comfort her, “Farley thought long and hard before he started pursuing you, Ella. In fact, he