Stevie didn't give him a time limit, she just asked him to make it quick so that he could come back to her. So she wasn't surprised when two days passed and she hadn't seen Alex. He wasn't going to be a tonk about it, he wanted to be nice. She understood that. It was Stevie that hated Fiona, not Alex.

But she was a little shocked when Fiona appeared at Drover's when she was breaking in one of the horses. Her loud call made Burner jump. She turned to Fiona with a look of annoyance. "Do you mind? I'm trying to break in a horse here."

"I don't care what you're doing," she shot back. Her tone made Stevie stop and look at her. Alex had kept his promise and he had told Fiona it was over. Now Stevie had to face Fiona's outrage. "Are you happy with yourself?"

"I'm always happy with myself," she answered. "Is there anything particular I'm supposed to be pleased about?" she asked pretending to be clueless.

"Don't play dumb. You know what I'm talking about," she snapped. Fiona was clearly not in the mood for Stevie's attitude.

"So enlighten me?" Stevie folded her arms across her chest as she looked at her rival. This was the woman who had stolen Alex. If anyone had the right to be nasty, it was Stevie. She had gone out of her way to be nice to her when she began dating Alex. Even when Fiona was lying to Alex, Stevie didn't kill her – she had wanted to.

"Alex wants a divorce!"

"Really?" Stevie didn't realize he had gone to such an extreme to end it. But she was more than happy with his choice.

"Don't pretend you didn't know," she screamed. "This is your fault!" she accused.

Stevie scoffed. "You can't blame me for this." She was going to defend herself tooth and nail. The only thing she had done wrong was love him, and she loved him long before Fiona had come into the picture.

"Yes I can. If it wasn't for you we'd be happy."

Stevie couldn't help but smile at that comment. "You keep tellin' yourself that Fiona. Do you honestly believe he was happy with you?"

"Until you got your claws into him, yes."

"He was mine way before he ever belonged to you. You took him from me. You knew he loved me when you married him, that's why you lied and told him the baby was his and married him before I could tell him the truth… you can't deny that."

And she didn't try. "I love him."

"I'm not arguing that. Maybe in some sick twisted way you do. But he doesn't love you, he never did. Did you think your marriage was going to last? You lied to him you railroaded him into getting married with a lie. You never deserved him!"

"And you do?"

"Yeah I think so. I was willing to pull back if you made him happy. Remember, I was the one that told you to give him another chance. I never asked him to divorce you. I asked him to leave you if he wanted me. I never asked him to love me. He did it because he wanted to,"

"Oh and you had no problem with that…"

Stevie smiled. It was like talking to a child. "Of course I didn't. But I wasn't going to have an affair with him Fiona. He knew that. I guess I wasn't the one nightstand he needed to give him what you didn't."

"You bitch."

"You can call me what you want, do you think I care?" she shrugged not backing off. She wasn't scared of Fiona, no matter how angry she was. "I have Alex now. He was always mine, you just came along and took him for a while, that's all."

"This isn't over," Fiona threatened her.

"Yes it is. You should think about this before you do anything you will regret. Alex loves me now, and nothing you do will change that. I think you should leave while you have a little dignity left?" she advised.

Fiona wasn't finished yet. She thought she would scare Stevie, but she knew better and nothing Fiona said would make a difference to how she felt about Alex or how he felt about her. They were meant to be. They always were. It had just taken them a while to figure it out. "He'll leave you, you know."

"Tell yourself whatever you need to if it gets you through this. But I don't need to hear it."

"You'll see. It didn't last more than a week with Claire," Stevie's heart rate sped up. If she said anything nasty about her she was going to lose it. "Our marriage didn't last more than six months. But you're right, you can make it work. After all if Alex's cursed with love you gave it to him."

"How do you figure that out?" she laughed.

"You turned up a day before she died, didn't you?" she asked.

Stevie tried not to believe what she was saying. But it did make her wonder if she had a point. Fiona's words had never mattered before, but there was something about what she said that made her doubt herself.

"You must be really gutted to be so cruel?" Stevie replied.

Fiona only shrugged. "I say it like it is."

"No you don't," she laughed. "You knew that Alex and I loved each other and you still took him from me, thinking you were the right person to make him forget… it didn't work though. You must have known deep down that he wanted me. Surely you weren't that stupid. That's why you took him away from me at every opportunity, even when Harry died you didn't want him near me."

"I was right about you. You took him because you could, not because you really wanted him."

"Please, do you even believe that yourself?"

"He's not the type of man to settle down with one woman…" there was bitterness in her voice.

"I know that," she replied not bothered by what she had said. "But he has two, his best friend – me, and the woman he loves – oh yeah that's me too." She smirked cheekily.

Fiona frowned, turned around and walked away.