Episode 623: My Life

Katherine sat beside Lila. "Breathe," she said in a much gentler way than she’d dropped the bombshell on Lila’s life.

"Breathe," Lila echoed. Breathing had never been harder to do. It was several minutes before she felt remotely normal again, and even then, there was the awful pall hanging over her that life may never feel normal again.

"You need to relax," Katherine said, not looking particularly relaxed herself. "Put it out of your mind. I was just irritated. I know how deeply Bas is in love with Ava, I didn’t want him to be typical and let his libido mess it all up and so I lashed out at you."

"I’m supposed to believe that was a nasty lie you cooked up off the top of your head to rattle me?" Lila considered herself a champion liar and rattler, and even she couldn’t fathom coming up with something like that.

Katherine was quiet a long time. "He might be your husband’s son. Do they look alike?"

"I thought so."

"There you go. No harm done."

"How can you say that?" Lila was the one to lash out now. "What if he’s not the father? Maybe I’ve just seen what I want to see in my son. What if Bowie can’t get past it? What if my son can’t? What if Curran finds out and wants a boy to add to his family? How could you do this?"

Katherine fell silent again. She stared at her hands. "I don’t know. It was wrong. Why would I do something so wrong? At the time, I thought it was right. I thought I was doing it for you and your son. I know Curran. He’s selfish. He wouldn’t be a good father. I thought I was doing you and your family a favor. But sometimes I wonder if that was really why I did it, maybe I was jealous."

Episode 624: No One Needs To Know