Chapter 185: She Knows

"Is that why you've been avoiding me?" I'm scared that there's more. I don't know what else there could be though, so I try to keep myself calm. Hopeful because I believe that we can move past this. It's hardly relevant now.

"Yes... no... the press know. They were going to put it in the paper. I couldn't do that: not to you, certainly not to Sarah... and Mike and Amelia - they deserve better than that. Their lives... their pain shouldn't be published in the tabloids..."

The bitterness in her voice is a reminder that she spent her childhood in front of a camera. The poster child for the perfect family. Her father had manipulated the media to believe that he was a widower with three young children when he first went into politics. He'd never tried to keep his children out of the way of reporters. In fact, his children were flaunted to the electorate, and it worked. The women of the city of London elected the dashing widower as their mayor.