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“So you never cheated on me with Denise.” She asked at last.

“I never cheated on you with Denise or with anyone else for that matter. I was faithful to you throughout our marriage.”

“Barry was fathered by another man.”

“Yes, he indeed was.”

“But you thought that you had cheated on me with Denise and that was why you ended our marriage,” Ava stated. Hearing her spell it out like that caused Derek to feel so much regret and he also felt a trifle foolish, but he answered anyway. He had known from the onset that this wouldn’t be a palatable discussion.

“Yes.”

“You valued her feelings more than mine …”

“What? No … no. I didn’t want to admit what I had done … or what I thought I had done. Plus there was the fact that I felt like I was holding you back from what you really wanted, which was to have children of your own, and the fear that we were going to make each other miserable along the line since we wanted different things. That was why I served you the divorce papers. I didn’t want to d