He paused for a moment, bent down to pick up the photo, and sat on the bed as Elizabeth Morgan's words echoed in his mind.

"Yes, I was wrong to offer her money to leave you. But she didn't take it, and I wouldn't force her. Clearly, money wasn't what mattered to her."

Elizabeth Morgan's last words hit the nail on the head.

His relationship with Caroline had started as a mutual arrangement - her taking the money wouldn't have been wrong. Yet something about it still stuck in ...