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“Please go,” she said quietly, distraught. There was not a chance that he would leave her like this. “Vivi, tell me,” he urged. “You promised.”
And again still not respecting or her wishes. Only demanding, and thing that he has no right to demand after abandoning her for a year.
and he should have been here at her side, helping her to heal.
No sh!t, she literally told you she needed you.
He held her stare. “I’m getting into that tub with you, and I’m going to hold you in my arms and show you that you’re safe with me. That I’ll protect you always.
I understand this is supposed to be “sweet” or romantic but at this point in their relationship it’s not. It’s just more of him demanding what he wants and not listening to her.
he had promised himself that he would be patient with her.
Patient with her!?
She should do string up by your toes from the nearest tree. She’s the once requiring patience to deal with you.
The past fortnight had been a blur of preparations for the house party and getting reacquainted with her husband. In every sense. Most particularly, the sense involving a bed.
I would prefer to see more of the non-bed reacquainting since I’m not really feeling a connection between these two.
“He is the only man I have ever wanted,” she admitted quietly. “Being his wife was the future I hoped for. But then when we married as we did, out of necessity to avoid scandal, and he left me, everything was ruined. All my hopes were dashed to bits.
“You’re afraid to trust in him again, aren’t you?” her friend asked sagely. She nodded. “I’m afraid he’ll break my heart a second time, and that it will be incapable of healing.
And that mission is winning your heart.”
But is he? Or is he just interested in sex and keeping her from being upset?
only I hadn’t planned a house party. If only he had told me his reason for leaving before he left. And if only he had told me he would return.”
and a promise that he never bloody well should have made to Percy in the first place. Friend or not, he ought to have told Percy to go to the devil when he’d demanded the promise from him to stay away from Vivi.
This. It would have made for a much more likable hero.
the barriers between them didn’t feel so insurmountable. When they made love, time, past pain and heartache, guilt and grief were suspended. But their days were a waterfall of memories. And there remained the soul-deep guilt eating at him
See, a magical penis cant fix everything.
He sniffed, his eyes burning, vision blurring. Damn it, he hadn’t wept in months.
“Do you still think that marrying me was a mistake?” She didn’t know where the question had come from, only that it had to be answered.
If I could do it again, I would spare you the scandal and all the pain in the year that followed.
This is what he needed to be saying 2 weeks ago.
she remained torn between her love for him and her fears that one day, he might find another reason to leave her
In those early days, she had been broken inside, too wounded to make sense of much of anything. But then Court had left her when she had needed him. In the span of a few short weeks, both of the men she loved the most had left her.
