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“Not by any stretch of the iination”

He swept away fat drops onto have to strike a balance So you’re not trying to prove your value and I’ you what I do and don’t want you to do I love you I want you to have everything you desire—whatever kind of life you want”

It was a lot to process I’d actually seen the power struggle co after Wayne when Dane had told h when it ca separated so that I had tohis own decisions independently of etting together

Everything between the two of us had happened so quickly Meeting, falling in love, encountering danger at the Lux, gettinga baby e hadn’t even fully discussed starting a family …

Noas living in this beautiful house with er, and a child Occasionally host of a husband

Quite the ind existence to experience over the course of just one year

Sing down a bit ht to try a few sessions with Ta an officiant”

He nodded I stared curiously at hireed And so promptly

“Seriously? You’d consider that?”

His thumb continued to stroke my cheek “I’ll do whatever I have to in order to make you happy To keep you here with me”

“I’ anywhere,” I vehemently insisted

“I hope you’ll always feel that way”

My heart wrenched that he’d ever doubt my conviction

But then I recalled a time when I had left him

So I tried to reassure hi, “Count on it”