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“Oh, Ariston I’m so sorry”
He shook his head “My father wasn’t He convinced her that he loved her and then when he got bored, he left Like he always did … alill until even his money won’t be able to pull in the beautiful women”
Chloe put her hands on Ariston’s chest, trying to infuse him with comfort
He closed his eyes, tilting his head back as if trying to hold in soreat emotion “I vowed then that I would never tell a woman falsely that I loved her”
“You told Shannon you loved her”
“And look what that got me Humiliation and betrayal”
“I’m not Shannon and you aren’t your father,” Chloe pointed out with fear-spiked optimism
He took in two deep breaths and let the his eyes, their cerulean depths filled with an e it was not a positive experience for me”
“It can be” She smiled up at him, her eyes filled with tears “I’ll show you”
He shook his head “I should go first I a”
No, but he was a man who had been traumatized by the words “I love you, Ariston I never wanted to leave you in the first place and I never would have refused to come back I love you and I always have”
“Why the birth control?” he asked starkly, as if the words came from somewhere deep inside hie was doomed to failure?”
“I wanted you to love ether and were irrevocably linked”
“You wanted our e to be about emotion, not a contract” His tone was more subdued than she’d ever heard it
“Yes, but that doesn’t e, I love being your wife You have to understand, Ariston, just being with you makes me happy”
“Being with you makes me happy too”
“Because?”
“Because I …” His voice choked off and he had to take another deep breath, his cerulean depths suspiciously shiny “Because I love you I do, more than I knew a ht of you ever leaving me”
“I won’t” She made it a vow from the very depth of her soul
“I’m not like your father”
“In the is, no, you aren’t” And her father had shown that even e
“I won’t neglect you or our children for SSE I have an excellent ement team I don’t have to spend sixty hours a week at my office”
“I’lad to hear that”
“I want children”
“I know”
“But not for Pappous I want theirl with your eyes and little boy ants to grow up to be a painter”
“Not a CEO?”