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“You did plan to divorce e was a business sham”
“Our e was more compatible than any I’ve seen based on so-called love”
“Rhea and Samuel—”
“Are on the brink of divorce”
She couldn’t deny it “But there are loads of people who are happily married and love each other”
“Not in our world”
“Even in our world What about Leiandros Kiriakis and his wife, Savannah? They’ve been married for nearly a decade and are still very much in love”
“You barely know them You only see the surface of their relationship”
“It’s real The love between the them as little as she did, she couldn’t doubt it “Besides, they aren’t the only ones There’s Demitri and Alexandra Petronides You ree, but they weathered the storm and are still very much in love”
Ariston frowned “We aren’t talking about our acquaintances right now, Chloe We have things far more personal to discuss”
“What is more personal than love?”
“For us? A great deal”
She stared at hiainst the concept of marital love His parents had a lot to answer for, she knew, but after what he’d shared in the restaurant, she wondered if Shannon ht have even more to do with it
But if he wanted to focus on them, that’s what she’d do “If I had been content, I never would have left Athens without you”
“Your father instigated that, and now I have to wonder if he didn’t do it on purpose”
A shard of pain went through her heart as Chloe realized how very real that possibility was Her father hadto stand in the way “It doesn’t matter He didn’t make up the divorce papers You had them drawn up”
“Surely you expected nothing else You prevented any hope of ourthe conception of my child”
She’d come to that conclusion herself and found it no less palatable having him say it aloud “I did not think you would stick to the letter of the contract”
“Why should I do anything else?”
No reason Certainly not because he loved her and needed her in his life, or anything She sed back any reply she ht want to make and turned her face toward the
He sighed from the other side of the car “I had the papers drawn in a fit of rage, but I would not have served you with the matters between us first”
That got her attention back on him “What?”