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Chapter 14

Phil was asleep when they got there and Cindy was sitting with him, Abi and George were getting coffee's to give Sam some time alone with Phil before she dropped her bombshell on him so Sam was left to face Cindy on her own. She took a few deep breaths before opening the door, calming herself down before alerting Cindy to her presence.

"Who are you?" Cindy asked glaring at her. Sam was surprised she didn't recognise her and she decided it would be best to avoid a scene for now, "I'm a colleague of your husbands" Sam answered. Cindy narrowed her eyes at her as if trying to decide whether she was lying then she turned back to Phil who had opened his eyes and was trying to sit up, "Ex-husband" he rasped collapsing back on the pillow.

"Yeah, I'm sorry babe, I know I was completely out of line and we can try again. After this…it made me realise how much I love you and…I don't know what I would do with out you" Cindy crooned and she almost made Sam vomit.

"I know what you'd do, you'd find some other poor unfortunate and latch onto them, making their life a misery for ten years" Phil murmured, Sam stored that nugget of information away, they had been married for ten years. "No, I don't want to try it again, I want you to get out, now" Phil croaked. As Cindy walked past her Sam hissed, "I know what you did, you didn't get him honestly, you had to trick him into even looking at you twice"

Cindy stared at her wide eyed, "Sam?" she asked horrified to have been caught out.

"The one and only" Sam replied, "Oh, and look here comes Phil's daughter, my daughter" Sam, indicated Abi walking slowly along the corridor carrying two coffees. Cindy glared at her for a moment then slapped her, Sam slapped her back, twice as hard and she left with one hand held to her smarting cheek. Abi looked at her mum perplexed, Sam just indicated for her to wait outside for a little while longer and she returned to the room. Phil was sitting up now, "Sam, there's something I need to tell you" Phil wheezed, though his voice was better than it had been before. Sam sat down on the bed beside him and listened patiently, "When I was it the tunnel, with Weaver trying to kill me, I realised something I should have known, I still love you no matter what I will always love you…and I need to know, why did you go off with that other guy at the bus stop? Why didn't you wait for me?" he asked, "I was willing to leave my family, who I loved very much, my uncle who I owed a lot to, for you, but you turned around and threw it back in my face"

Sam paused for a minute, she could hear the hurt in Phil's voice and she couldn't bare to think she had been the one who caused it, "I'm sorry" she whispered, "When I was waiting for you…I saw someone who looked like you—kissing Cindy, I was upset and I thought it was you. I know I should have known better, I know you would never have done that to me" Sam explained.

"So who was the other guy?" Phil asked finding it hard to accept this excuse.

"That was Max, my guitar teacher, he's been like a brother to me, looking after me till I found my feet, and before you ask, no, we were never together, like I said he was a big brother to me" Sam explained.

"So, you know the rest of my love life, is there anyone special in yours?" Phil asked

"No, there was, once, but I lost him over a stupid mistake and…I still love him" Sam bit her lip, hoping Phil's would read through the lines.

Phil's face slowly broke into a grin, "So, if you found this guy again, and if you resolved that stupid mistake and he said he wanted you back, would you consider it?"

"I don't believe it needs consideration" Sam replied before leaning in and feeling Phil's soft lips against hers, it felt the same ask it had the first time he had kissed her in front of everyone at school. She remembered the argument that had followed and smiled as she pulled away.

"Now we have that cleared up, there's some one I want you to meet…you know how I said down in the tunnels you never see you daughter, I didn't know about Maddie then" Sam told him as she moved towards the door, she turned and opened it and beckoned Abi in. "Abi, this is Phil, Phil, this is –our daughter Abi" Sam introduced them. Abi stood to the side of the room looking awkward as Phil looked her up and down, he was unsure of what to say to his daughter, she would be fifteen and he had never met her. He considered what he might want his father to say to him if he ever saw him again—"She's beautiful Sam," he murmured. His face broke into a grin, "You're the splitting image of your mum when she was you age" he commented, "You gonna give you old dad a hug?" Abi smiled, still slightly apprehensive, and crossed the room to give him a hug. She could see bits of herself in him, the set of her ears, where her mums were small his were a bit bigger, she obviously got her height from him and just other little things, like the way her teeth were slightly crooked on the bottom row, though she had had braces to correct that. She was glad she finally had a dad.