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“What false conclusion?”

“I would prefer not to get into that”

“Too bad…just wondering what couldet, but there was nothe irritation in his ainst the headboard

At her questioning look, he shrugged “If you’re going to grill me, I want to be comfortable”

She hid an unexpected smile He sounded so surly

“Tell me about your false conclusion”

CHAPTER TEN

“IT WAS a conclusion thatTell me about it”

“I believed you had found someone else”

“What?”

A dark burn washed across his sculpted cheekbones “I became obsessed with the idea you had fallen for another man Your demand for a divorce clinched it”

“Why?” she asked in stunned amazement

“I could conceive of no other reason you would ask for a divorce”

“But—”

“You had started rejecting me sexually I did not understand it”

“It hurt”

“But you did not tell me that I had to draw my own conclusions”

“And that was that I’d taken a lover”

“I did not go that far—I could not i out during conversations…like you were thinking about soht you didn’t even notice”

“I did Believe me”

“But you decided the reason was because my heart had become unfaithful to you, if not my body”

“I could not be sure I ever had your heart”

“What do you mean?”

“You have never said you loved ain”