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At first,for her and her unborn child The thought of her out there in the big bad world alone damn near brokeher out of ht, had pretty ine my life without her in it as sappy as that sounds In fact, the very thought of letting her go made me sick

I’d never wanted to hold onto anything as much as I wanted to with her and the child she carried I’d had soht be averse to physical contact with a man because of what had been done to her, but even so, I’d wanted to marry her, to make herher ht even with as much as I’d come to want her

I needn’t have worried; my Sofia was the most passionate creature I’d ever taken totomonths There’s no way she could doubther off tosex I’ve ever had, I showed her my heart in many other ways All the ways I could think of to bind her to me

I’d shielded her from the worst of the backlash froly to our union In that tiive us their blessing and our eventual eloperown so close that there was hardly a tiether I did it out of fear of so her if I wasn’t there to shield and protect and because I’d started to feel like I was

I’d fallen ine she’d been before tragedy struck I’d done everything possible to draw her outher that she washer each day that she was in no way responsible for what had been done to her Eventually, she’d co could break had grown

There had been a lot of fallout over our elope from Charlotte and her family and acquaintances But I’d shouldered all the blame there, too, and shifted whatever animosity was felt towards her ontoto realize I meant business when I threatened to end anyone who fucked with her

My parents were pissed, to say the least, but I thinkthem for the first time showed them just how serious I was about her and what I felt for her Their threats of disinheritance fell on deaf ears along with everything else they could think to throw at h to live on for the rest of h heartbreaking, wouldn’t be half as bad as the alternative

Because ainst the world, rown tenfold in the time we’ve been married, contrary tome to ruin

We’d moved here to New York because as mad as I was at my parents, I didn’t want to be that far away I still have that in h I’d defied them

At first, it was hard on her, thinking that she was the reason for the rift inher out of her funk and get her to see things my way

I would never be happy without her into admit about parents that I’d loved my whole life and who’d loved me in return I’d rather have her and lose them than the other way around

I did everything in my power to erase the shadows fro to erase her past So I filled her days with light and laughter and built her a kick-ass nursery in our new home so she’d know the baby was part of my love too

I think it was then that the strong bond that now exists between us was born, the fact that I had accepted the son or daughter she carried wholeheartedly as rew and evento the kid as he or she moved around in there