The following morning Jane felt emotionally wrecked. She did feel saddened that her marriage was over. She had always loved Alexander and had always wanted the best for him, but she realised now that her marriage without Jess had been a lie, because she'd spent so long just going through the motions. It felt strange for her to think of herself as a single woman again, as she had only ever been with Alexander, which, in a way, made her feel alone and vulnerable, but she didn't want to voice these concerns to Jess, who already felt guilty enough; but now she had Jess back properly, with no more secrets, no more lies, and it didn't matter now if people found out. She didn't care what anyone else thought, well, anyone except Jess.

She and Jane had sat up for a lot of the night talking. Jane wasn't the only one whose emotions were all over the place. Jess felt delighted that she and Jane could be together at last, because even though they now had a close friendship, they still had so much catching up to do and things to learn about each other, as Jess had realised the night before. She was delighted that she didn't have to lie to anyone or be afraid of the wrong people finding out, but she felt an overwhelming sense of guilt, because she felt responsible for Alexander finding out, and for breaking up Jane and Alexander's marriage. So even though she was delighted to have Jane to herself, she felt devastated at causing Jane pain.

'Jess, my darling, it's been a long time coming; you have absolutely nothing to feel guilty about. I can't ever express the love that I feel for you, and I feel ashamed for ever having doubted the relationship that I could have had with you. I chose him, and it was the worst mistake of my life. But now I have the chance to put that right and we can be together properly.' Jane had said as she had tried to comfort her daughter in the early hours of the morning. They were both in need of reassurance from each other.

'Can I move back in?'

'Of course you can, you can have your room for as long as you want it,' Jane had beamed.

'Although it is kind of sad, I did quite like staying with Lovejoy. He really has been great,' Jess had said, before saying goodnight to her mother and going to bed.

Jane had then walked into the sitting room, where Lovejoy was sleeping on the sofa and watched him for a few moments. Her feelings for him were also very mixed at the moment, because she knew that Jess was right, he had been so supportive over the last few months, he'd never questioned anything that Jane had said, he'd fought for Jess as if she were his own; she'd put so much pressure on him and yet he had never once cracked, and she felt her love for him intensify. But after everything she had been through with Alexander, she couldn't face bringing someone else into her life so soon, but that night she couldn't shake Lovejoy or Jess from her mind.

Although the events of the dinner had ended positively for Jess, in the sense that she now had her mother to herself, her encounter with Levinia had still affected her quite badly. Over the next few days she began to feel less guilty about Jane and Alexander, but she still couldn't shake Levinia's comments from her mind.

'I just don't get it! Why would he say he didn't want children, but then play happy families with someone else's kids?!' Jess said in frustration out of the blue, but this had happened a few times, where there would be nothing but silence between her and Jane, then all of a sudden one of them would voice what was playing on their mind.

'Probably because they were someone else's children Jess. He could hand them back after a while, and he wasn't as hands on with them as he claimed he was. He was also less hands on with my nieces when they came to visit,' Jane explained as she laid on the sofa with Jess sat on the floor beside her. Jane had noticed that Jess seemed to sit on the floor more than anywhere else, a funny little quirk of her personality that she had previously not noticed.

'You have nieces?'

'Yes, I have three; Charlotte, Samantha and Rebecca. They're the daughters of my sister Prue,' Jane replied a little nervously, above all else, she feared hurting Jess again.

'How old are they?'

'Well, Samantha and Charlotte are twins, they're two years older than you, and Rebecca is about six months younger than you. I'm Godmother to all three girls, but I couldn't bear to be with Rebecca for the first two or three years of her life, after I lost you I found it hard to be around any children.'

Jane's heartfelt explanation really pulled at Jess' heartstrings. She could hear the pain that Jane had felt, and even though she really hated the idea of Jane doing things with her nieces that she should have done with her, she felt a little better knowing that Jane found it difficult, although that thought also made Jess feel guilty.

It took almost a week for the girls to feel less raw after the events of that dinner, but finally Jess felt ready to move back in to Felsham Hall with her mother to where she belonged. Over a period of a few days, Jess moved her belongings from London and from Lovejoy's, and he built a large rabbit hutch in the back garden for Ellie, and Toby was delighted to be reunited with Monty and Ruthie.

Lovejoy hadn't spent much time with Jane and Jess after Alexander left, he knew that they needed this time together to bond and comfort each other. He had phoned them daily to check that they were alright, and they had invited him up for dinner on several occasions, but he knew that the time just wasn't right. However, now that Jess had moved in properly, he helped with moving her belongings, and used the time to spend with them.

Now that Alexander was no longer a factor in their lives, it felt as if a weight had been lifted from all three of their shoulders. He knew that he stood a bit more of a chance with Jane, but he also knew that he couldn't ruin things by rushing it, it was going to take time. However, helping Jane with a little "welcome home" project for Jess, helped the two to bond deeply.

As Jane had promised, when Jess had first moved from London, she cleared one of the bedrooms and turned it into a studio for her. She also bought her all new equipment, with all new canvas material, easel, brushes and paints. She even thought to turn the dressing room into a dark room, which Lovejoy promised to use with Jess to teach her how to develop film properly. When Jane had inquired as to how he knew how to do it, he cheekily replied, "I learnt from an old pornographer in her Majesty's holiday camp", which earned him a swift, sharp slap to the arm.

'You've done a really great job in here Lovejoy,' Jane said as she propped herself up against the doorframe of the, now, dark room.

'Well I have to say Janey, I'm rather proud of it myself,' he replied as he walked up beside her and was rather surprised, yet delighted, to find her move from the door frame to his side, where she wrapped her arms around his waist and nestled her head under his chin. He wrapped his arms around her, and they enjoyed the sensation of holding onto each other, with the subtle smell of Jane's perfume filling his senses, he gently kissed the top of her head. She glanced lovingly up at him and their eyes lingered for a few moments.

'Janey? Lovejoy? I think that's everything from back home that I wanted to take with me,' Jess shouted up as she returned from her final trip to London. 'Some of it I've given to Lovejoy to sell, and the rest I've left for my tenants to use,' she huffed as she carried the last box and dumped it on the counter in the kitchen, where Lovejoy and Jane joined Jess, and Jane promptly began to bustle around, dressed in her blue jump suit with a bright red belt round the middle, making sure that they all had a drink.

In the last few days Lovejoy had noticed a massive change in her. She was less the Lady and much more the mother. She was more like the Janey he had first met all those years ago. Jess seemed freer too. She was happier, and bouncier, as if, all of a sudden, everything had been lifted from their shoulders and Felsham Hall seemed to have a new leash of life as well, the only problem now was, it was much too quiet for Jess' liking, so she walked over to her boom box, flicked it on and instantly Girls Just Wanna Have Fun came on, making them all dance around to it. When Tinker and Eric arrived to speak to Lovejoy, they looked at the sight of the three of them dancing with utter perplexion. They had never seen Lovejoy or Jane behave like this before.

'Come on guys, you should join in, it's very liberating don't you know,' Jess laughed as she twirled around, making her mother laugh with pure, genuine delight.

'No I don't dance,' Eric said, 'I might lay down my life for Cyndy Lauper, but dance for her I will not,' he added, but Jess gave neither man an option, and grabbed them both. After a while they were all exhausted.

'God Lovejoy, your niece hasn't half got some moves,' Eric panted as he flopped into a deck chair outside, whilst Jess made herself comfy on the grass. Jane was pouring some lemonade into some glasses for them and Jess caught her eye when Eric said "niece", and Jane gave her a subtle nod.

'Ah, Eric, about me being Lovejoy's niece…I'm not. I'm actually Jane's daughter,' she explained, and Eric was gobsmacked. 'The rest of the story doesn't really matter, because all that matters now, is that I have my family here with me and I'm back where I belong.'

'You sure are,' Jane replied as she sat in the chair behind her daughter and lovingly cupped her cheek.

That was all they did for the rest of the day, sit and eat, drink and chat. Jess was so happy because she now looked at Jane as her mother, and even though he wasn't, as far as Jess was concerned, Lovejoy was going to be her dad. She didn't yet know about the kiss that he and Jane had shared, nor had Jane and Lovejoy discussed it. He knew that Jane was hurting, even despite what she said; he also knew that if he was to stand even the smallest of chances with her, he needed to take it easy and let her come to terms with everything that had happened in such a short space of time, even if they kept having little moments together, which were just teetering on the edge of something, he was just going to have to teeter a little bit longer.

'Come on Eric, I think it's time we left; I have a hot date with a bar stool that's calling my name,' Tinker said later that evening, already slightly worse for wear, as he dragged a sleepy Eric away. 'Goodnight all.'

'Goodnight,' Lovejoy, Jane and Jess called, none of them wanting to actually move, but Jane had no choice when Mrs Cameron came out to her.

'Madam, there's a telephone call for you, it's your mother,' she said curtly.

'Excuse me for a while,' Jane said with a smile as she left Jess and Lovejoy to bask in the remnants of the late evening sun, and when Jess gave a deep sigh, Lovejoy looked at her with concern over the brim of his sunglasses.

'Is everything alright Jess?'

'It is, it really is. I feel free, for the first time in years I feel truly free, but I just hope that I'm enough for Janey and that, in a few weeks or months, she won't end up resenting me for ruining her marriage.'

'Jess, I have never seen Janey as happy as she is now. You talk about being free, well I think she is too. Since you came into her life again, I've seen her gradually becoming more and more like the Jane I first met, the Janey that didn't go in for designer suits, or hire in workmen to tile a bathroom on a job for her client. She used to do all of that herself…'

'Janey can tile a bathroom?!' Jess exclaimed with surprise.

'She sure can, but Alexander manipulated her more and more over the years so that she would be the kind of wife he wanted, a nice bit of totty to have on his arm every night, or the ideal hostess at one of his parties,' he said bitterly. 'I think Jane is a lot more like you than you maybe think, and I hope that we might finally start to see more of that shining through. So don't you ever worry about her resenting you Jess, because that will never happen.'

'Thanks Lovejoy, and thanks for being so amazing over the last few months. I don't think either of us would have gotten through this if it wasn't for your support, in fact, if you hadn't come after me that night, I would never have come back, and I would never have found out how wonderful Janey really is. I owe a lot to you.'

'Well thank you Jess, but it took a lot of courage for you too. And no matter what, I am always here for you, and Janey too,' he replied as he took a sip of his beer.

'I know you are, and I'm grateful, and I know Janey is too. Are you ever going to tell her that you love her?'

'Blimey Jess, you don't mince your words do you?' He coughed as he dripped some of his beer down his chest.

'Oh come off it Lovejoy, I know you two love each other, I knew it the first day we met, when you were standing outside the courthouse. I have never seen anyone look at someone else with as much love and devotion as you look at Janey, and when she thinks that you are not looking, she looks at you exactly the same way. Alexander never once looked at her that way.' Lovejoy didn't know what to say. He knew that Jess was right, he just hadn't realised that Jess had noticed, but the death glare she was giving him at that moment was very familiar, and he knew better than to trifle with it.

'Alright Jess, I'll level with you. I am in love with Jane and I hope she knows that, but I have to take my time. She's hurting a lot right now, even though she knows that it's the best thing for her, and I need to allow her time with you.'

Jess knew that he was right, and Jane's return to them put pay to any further discussion about it, but at least she knew that Lovejoy loved Jane, and for now that would do.

'How's your mother?' Jess asked as Jane flopped down into the chair beside Lovejoy.

'She's great, in fact she sounded in very high spirits when we spoke, Prue's with her and they were just talking about a trip up to Scotland that they're planning in a couple of months. They've invited me, which has given me an idea Jess. I want you to come with me to meet the rest of your family, if you want to of course. If it's too much for you I do understand, but I want to tell my mother and sister the truth if I can. I don't want us to have to go through any more of what we've been through in the last month,' Jane explained as her eyes watered and her voice caught in her throat, making Jess crawl towards her and hold her hand tightly, her own eyes watering a little.

'Janey I don't want any more lies either. I want to meet them, although I only want you to tell them if you're comfortable doing it; I never want to do anything that makes you uncomfortable.'

'Well they're going to be shocked, there's no point in denying that and I'm not sure how I'm going to break it to them, but I want them to know about you, and I want them to know how proud I am and how much I love you,' Jane said as Jess went to give Jane a loving hug.

'Well, no matter what, we'll always be in this together, you, me and Lovejoy too.'

Well, I've decided to end this story here! But don't worry, because I'm actually working on a sequel to it already, so please do stay tuned for the next story "Aisle Tango With You" which will be uploaded within the next few days. Thank you to everyone who has reviewed this story, it's much appreciated, and to those of you who have stuck with it, even when I took a hiatus. But especially big thanks to my lil sis for being my fab proof reader and for poking me every now and then to come up with new chapters =D