Why didn't she just tell him??? Makes you wonder, they always do thinkgs like that don't they?
Well, reason one is because it doesn't make for good viewning not to complicate things
Reason 2, because maybe Laura wanted him to soften to her naturally rather than want her back because of the baby.
He really is being unecessarily evil to her though. She made a mistake, but he did the deed before she did, so he broke the trust. She may have slept with Gary as a subconcious revnge thing. Laura was so good to him when he became bankrupt, stood by him alll the way, p[ulled him up from the gutter and got him well and truly on his feet again.
Laura also owned all of that in name, Ian tricked her into signing it all over to Pauline, Phil was helping her by lending and paying for his lawyer for her, has anything else happened with that? She should take Ian to the cleaners, she has every right.