Chapter 56

Sara's smile was completely lacking in humor. "We didn’t get far enough in our friendship for me to broach such a sensitive subject as IVF with him.”

Simon gave a disgusted shake of his head. “Why didn't you just forget the whole idea of IVF and instead just go to bed with him and hope for the desired result? He would certainly have been willing!”

Her throat moved convulsively as she swallowed before speaking. “After my engagement to Bruce ended, I didn’t want the trauma of being intimately involved again. Nor did I want the complication of having my child’s life ripped apart by estranged parents, and so I thought—I thought a legal contract with a sperm donor, followed by IVF—”

“It seems to me, with all your talk of “I didn’t want” and “nor did I want”, that you weren’t thinking of anything or anyone but yourself, Sara,” Simon cut in coldly.

No, she hadn’t, Sara acknowledged numbly. The woman she had been—cool and businesslike, and determined not to become