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"You don’t actually love him at all, do you?"

"I didn’t say that"

"Then what are you saying?"

"Not wanting to e and love are two very different things Ask a married person They’ll tell you that themselves"

"So you do love him?"

"Yes I love Wesley very much"

"Tell me why"

"I can’t"

Marie-Laure glanced at Damon

"Wait, whoa I can," she said before Daain "I can and I will Sorry My editor kicks my ass when I tell and not show in a story I’"

"Show me, then You did offer me a bedtime story earlier"

"I write erotica, not bedti?"

"Touché"

Marie-Laure leaned forward in the bed She put her chin on her hands and s to have to talk to ent She handles all book deals"

"Daain, knife at the ready