Their Marriage Reunited by Sheena Morrish

around rather than a vessel for their day trip.
    Lilly wasn’t sure what she had expected from the day but after seeing the yacht she had thought they would be simply sailing the pure blue waters until they stopped for a picnic. Connor had told her he wanted to spend time getting to know each other again and what better way than to keep her prisoner in the middle of the ocean. To her surprise though they barely spent any time on the yacht at all. Instead they travelled to every island nearby and went on tours and adventures that even Melissa couldn’t find boring. It was a beautiful day and Lilly found herself letting her guard down and enjoying herself for a change. It may not have been what she’d had in mind when she said she wanted to go travelling but it was like travelling her own small piece of the world.
    The day was simply perfect and Lilly knew that she would remember it forever. Connor had organised tours for them of popular attractions around the islands but he had also organised some fun things too. Lilly had been stunned when she had walked on to the beach and found horses waiting for them. It had been a brilliant experience as their horses had galloped along the beach with the spray of the sea occasionally hitting them. Lilly had been laughing as she enjoyed the freedom it offered. She had even raced against Connor. It had been nice to enjoy herself for a change without having to worry about everything. She hadn’t even had to worry about Melissa who was being taken care of by a professional as she rode her small pony on a private corner of the beach.
    It had been a glorious day for all of them and it made Lilly realise that maybe she had been wrong about Connor. She hadn’t wanted to give him a real chance because she hadn’t thought that he was the same man she had fallen in love with. If today proved anything it was that that man she’d fallen for was still there somewhere. She just had to decide if she could accept the rest of him too.
    By the time they arrived back home Melissa was already asleep and Lilly felt dead on her feet. Connor carried Melissa inside and it broke Lilly’s heart all over again as she imagined that it was their child Connor was carrying. If things had been different they could have been having days like this all the time and they would have been carrying their child to bed and tucking them in together. Instead it just made her heart ache to realise that their child never got to experience any of this.
    Lilly couldn’t face the thought of tucking Melissa in to bed with Connor by her side so instead she headed in to the lounge and helped herself to a glass of wine. It didn’t take Connor long to reappear and she figured the nanny must have been waiting up for them. He took one look at the glass she was holding and then quirked a brow while he turned and poured himself a matching glass of wine.
    “I thought you’d enjoy today,” he said softly. Lilly closed her eyes against the hurt tone she could hear. She hated knowing that she was hurting him with her rejection even if he deserved it.
    “I did,” she told him as she opened her eyes and offered him a sad smile.
    “Then what changed?” he asked and she cursed his ability to read her.
    “Nothing changed,” she instantly denied. It wasn’t quite true though.
    “Something changed,” he corrected and Lilly gave a sigh as she gave in to the inevitable.
    “I enjoyed today,” she said and he gave a grim smile.
    “But?” he prompted.
    “But it doesn’t change anything. We can make as many new memories as we like but it won’t change the old ones,” she said. Connor ground his teeth together in frustration.
    “Maybe if I knew what I did that drove you away then I could change those memories,” he countered but Lilly shook her head.
    “It doesn’t matter because you can’t change the past and it’s always going to affect our future,” Lilly said.
    “Just tell me what I did,” Connor said. It killed Lilly to