I'd just let you walk away that easy?" James's voice

as cold, "So I get the wrong room and sudden

he wasn't backing down at all. "Do you talk this

that any of your business?" she snapped,

g in front of her used to mean everything to her.

fists clenching until

im, leaned toward her brother and whispered, "Let

cruel line, his tone razor-sharp. "Carrying out yo

He turned on James, fuming. "You ser

ward, Maria gripped his wrist tightly and blocked him

more. He scoffed, "If he's tha

e locked eyes with James and s

et what? Not punchin

chuckle, didn't ev

already pictured what might happen if J

red he'd try to ta

ver loved her-so he probably woul

he just might want custody.

la was his daughter, and remembered what he'd just

masked it, wearing that stone-cold face again as he looked to Daniel. "From the way yo

ore convinced than ever that the divorce was the

t all. And to throw out an accusation like that? It was obvious. His sister'

thought about what this means for you?" James's gaze grew colder

ewis blurted out, then froze the second he realized wha

a while. They'd suddenly appeared super close

marry David, but the child is his. He's swamped with work back here, and I've been ov

ely darkened. "You better n

's arm and headed for the door. Just as they reached it, she paused,

mes scoffed at her figure. Giving

ic smirk. "You know, it's wild to me - we were married for two year

a flicker of shock-maybe even hope-cros

s Daniel Lewis - my actual, blood-related little

them didn't look anything alik

ings back then. But it had only been, what, five years? And he couldn't even

ly, a wave of guil

whatever. Just don't show up in my life ever again

sharply and left, not

heavily, emot

anded him a drink. "Here. Maybe t

ngers tracing the rim. "So,

to be impulsive, yeah. but even in your wo

how big he'd messed up - not recognizing Daniel,

it - ran into someone from the past," Andrew muttered, cracking o