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Chapter 6: confessions part 1

Still stunned that before her stood the man who, to this day, still haunted her dreams, Evy looked him in the eyes. "He always did have nice eyes," she thought "I think that's the first thing I noticed about him, but what is he doing here, in London?" He stood looking at her with the same old O'Connell smile and his eye staring in to hers.

"Evy I--" Rick began, "I can't believe I found you." "You look great, not that you ever could look bad" he added silently to himself starring at the long black dress she had on with just the right amount of make up, then he remembered what he had on, the usual white shirt and tan pants.

She blushed a bit, and then confusedly asked, "What?"

"I can't believe I found you, I came here to see you." He said, then he spoke the truth, "It's been so long and I couldn't go on much longer without you, I missed you so much." He finished by pulling her into a hug. "God I miss holding her." Surprisingly she didn't pull away she stood in his arms and returned the hug.

"I missed you a lot, too Rick I've thought about you everyday for the past two years." She said into his ear.

"Really?" he asked as if though what she had just said was in his imagination. "If you missed me why didn't you come back to Egypt?" he thought a little ticked off.

"Really, Rick I missed you more than anything."

"Wow, this is great, us seeing each other again and--" he was cut off by a little voice trying to be heard and that one word that made his heart sink.

"Mummy?" the little boy, Alex, Rick had seen earlier running through the store with a toy was now looking up at Evelyn holding the same toy against his chest. "So that WAS Jonathan and apparently the kid shook him off, but then that would mean Evy was a mom and…" he cut his thought's short to hear was being said between mother and son.

"Yes baby?" She asked gently.

The little boy held up the toy to his mom. "You want the toy?" she asked and in response got Alex to nod his head. "Ok, you can get it, where's your uncle?" the little boy shrugged his arms looking around for him.

"Go find him and tell him I'm ready to go ok?" Alex nodded his head and went in search of his troublesome uncle.

"Rick, I'd love more than anything to talk right now, but unfortunately I can't, I've got to get home and cook dinner before 6:30 or else Alex will be sick tonight and I'm not really in the mood to loose another night's sleep.

"Um…ok, can I see you tomorrow for lunch?" he asked sounding desperate.

"Sure, how's 12:30?"

"Great, where can I meet you?"

"Do you know where the British museum is?"

"Yeah, I think I do,"

"Great meet me there tomorrow and we'll go to lunch."

"Ok, bye, see you then." I was going to kiss her, but if she has a husband I don't want him to get jealous and start a fight. He explained to himself. Even if I didn't see him.

The next day at 12:20 Rick was at the museum waiting for Evy to come out.

"Hi, ready?" Rick asked once she got out and walked up to him.

"Yes, let's go." She got in his car, one he had just bought about an hour ago.

They arrived at a little cafe', not too far from the house Evy lived in, and took a seat outside on the patio. I hope he takes the truth lightly, she thought.

The waiter came to their table and took their orders.

"I'll have a soup and salad please." Evy said politely.

"I'll take the chef's sandwich" said Rick.

The waiter left and left the two to talk and catch up.

"So, how have you been?" Evy asked.

"Good, and yourself"

"Um…well busy, very busy, Alex can be a handful."

"He's cute, he looks a lot like you?" he meant it as a statement, but it came out as a question. He mentally kicked himself for that one.

"No, he's a spitting image of his father, looks and personality."

"Oh," he said trying to hide his hurt. "So is his dad at home"

"No"

"Work?"

"No" now Rick was confused "does the kid have a father?" he thought to himself.

"So, not that it's any of my business and not to be rude, but does he even have a dad?"

"Well, of course he has a father," she said sarcastically "I just haven't seen him since before Alex was born."

"What happened?"

"My, aren't we curious, but if you must know, I fell in love, slept with him, got pregnant, and before he could fond out, I left." She said as if it were nothing. "But regret ever leaving" she said silently.

"Why?"

"I didn't think he would love me after he found out, so before I could find out if I was right or wrong…I left."

"Oh, he wasn't one to be a father, uh?"

"I really don't know, I didn't stick around long enough to find out."

"So he doesn't know?'

"no" she said sadly, "Rick I've held a secret for the past 2 years" she continued and grabbed his hands from across the table "and now I've got some confessions to make" her voice turned serious.

Rick looked at her and let her know he was listening.

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