Ashley sighed and leaned back in the bathtub. She needed the quiet time alone after all the pressures of work and the need to care for a young child. It was times like these that her thoughts and memories ran unimpeded.
Things hadn't gone the way Ashley wanted from the moment she discovered and announced her pregnancy. Bob and Cathy were happy for her though Bob had jokingly said it was another example of Ashley 's personal life intruding upon her work again. Ashley didn't appreciate the barbed reference to the scandalous affair she'd had months before her pregnancy. The rumours that had swept her neighbourhood and her as well as Will 's workplaces had just begun to die down when news of her pregnancy spread. She knew that people were speculating if Will was the father or not.
