“Would going mean letting them control another part of my life?” I asked.

Eva thought for a moment.

“Only if we make their reaction the reason we go.”

I slept badly that night.

Then I called Nadia.

“I want to handle the parentage issue properly,” I told her.

“And I won’t use the children to make a scene.

But I also won’t decline a legitimate professional opportunity just because Callum might be there.”