Eight months after divorcing me because I supposedly couldn’t

not the architect. He never is. He is a man who introduces people and takes a percentage and makes a point of not asking, and he handed his wife’s grandmother’s account details to his assistant because it was sixty-one thousand and it was lying there and he sincerely believed nobody would notice an old woman.

The second divorce.

They separated in the April.

Ondine’s baby — a boy — was born in the February, and he is not Ellis’s. That came out through the case, not through me, and I am not going to write anything else about it, because there is a child in it.

Ellis applied for contact with my daughter in the May.

I did not fight it. That surprised everybody, including my solicitor.

He has supervised contact once a month at a centre in Brightwater. He has attended nine of eleven. He is, by all accounts, careful with