She was beyond words so he took it on himself to coax her toward the table and settled her down. She had well and truly put him on the back foot, her confession of love had forced him to realize that he definitely had strong feelings for her. It didn't matter to him that she had a bastard son, she'd thought she'd been in wedlock when she had Jacob after all. He was mildly concerned that there was some displacement on his part, he was a man who lost a wife and a child. Was it fate that brought him a woman with a son and no husband or was he simply looking to fill a hole?