"I do love him," she started, unable to stop the tears. "I know you don't like that but I do, I can't help it. I just don't understand..." she trailed off, shaking her head and wiping her eyes. "It's not like I want you around all the time, it's not like I think you'll babysit or come round for Christmas, but for him to tell me I can't see you, forbid me from bringing my own daughter around... to blame you for Alicia's disappearance, for everything that goes wrong."
If Fred wasn't going to change his mind about Trevor, she didn't know what she wanted. She could hardly believe that Trevor seemed to be the thing she might leave her husband over, but -
Verity sucked in a breath. Leave Fred? She couldn't possibly! Why had she even thought that? "I can't leave him," she stated, wiping her eyes. "I honestly can't, Trevor, I have nothing. I don't own the house, or the business, I don't have any money. There's no way I could leave him, with a kid and another on the way and be on my own."