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No ht want to avoid it

She laid her hand over the one against her cheek “You have to be reasonable about this Please, Claudio”

“I a unreasonable here It is both foolish and dangerous for you to wait to have the surgery And it is crihted for you to believe we ive you an heir”

“Your doctor said that IVF had a seventy percent success rate with endouarantee”

“Neither is unhindered fertility”

“But there’s a better chance for you to have children with a woman who does not have endometriosis”

“I do not want another woman!”

She dropped her hand and leaned back with a jerk, stunned by his vehe”

He shook his head, barely banked rage glittering in his dark gaze “It is not guilt You are my wife I want you to remain my wife If there is no other e?”

“There is no other man,” she exclaimed “I can’t believe we are back to that”

“Then why?”

“It’s for the good of the country, Claudio You would see that if you were thinking with your brain and not your pride”

“No” He glowered “The good of the country is best served by you staying asso stubborn “Not if I can’t give you children”

“If you cannot, I have brothers and a nepheho are in line to the throne”

“You heard your brothers last night They don’t want their children to have the pressures of growing up to be king”

“Tough,” he said without the slightest hint of apology “While theyIf I were to die before having a child, Tomasso would have to take my role and his son would then inherit the throne It is the way of our bloodline”