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Her own anger said she should not care, but her heart was too bloody froh to realize it Besides, it was entirely possible she would not be able to hide her physical agony from the endometriosis when her monthly came

At least if she told him about it now, she would not have to deal with revelations during a tiot worse and until she had the surgery, it would continue to do so While hethe truth, it couldn’t be worse than his belief that she was selfishly letting hier and the need for honesty between them still at war inside of her “Claudio”

He looked at her, his dark eyes winter-cold “What?”

Remember, diplomacy and tact, she told herself “I don’t want to add to the burden of worry you are dealing with King Vincente, but—”

“Then do not”

“What?” she asked, not having expected to be cut off like that After all, despite the way he’d been acting earlier, he’d been trained in diplomacy since infancy, too

“You are about to tell me why you want a divorce, are you not?”

“Yes”

“Do not”

“But I need to”

“I do not wish to hear it”

“But—”

“You can have your divorce, Therese, but not until h to withstand news that his treasured daughter-in-law has feet of clay Until that point, ill continue the facade of our e Capice?”

“No, not really I don’t understand at all, actually,” she adht at a totally unexpected reaction from him It was as if he had becoht she e would end over your dead body”

“I have changed my mind”

“I can see that, but why?”