The Devious Husband (The Windsors, #6)

by Catharina Maura

I’ll wait forever if I need to, so long as you understand that you’re mine as much as I’m yours.”

I got exactly what I wanted, Sierra. You.”

“Stop focusing on what he says and start paying closer attention to the things he does. Not everyone expresses their affection with words, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. You just need to know where to look.”

I want your raw, unfiltered truth, your insecurities, your jealousy. I want every single thing you dislike about yourself, every single thing you try to hide. I want all of you — all the little things that make you who you are, not who you pretend to be.

“Don’t dismiss your needs simply because I failed to meet them.”

I know it’s not enough, but please know that I heard your concerns, and I’m working on it.”

I’m learning the hard way that though words can hurt, the words we leave unspoken can cut just as deep.

I only promised to be with you until death do us part. I was just expediting the death part

“I want you, Xavier Kingston. The good, the bad, and everything in between.”

“Then eventually, this girl came along that challenged me at every step, and I fell in love even more, harder than ever before. I became obsessed with competing with her, and she inadvertently helped me grow my company into more than what I ever thought possible. She became my lifeline. This incredibly beautiful, batshit crazy girl became the highlight of my entire damn life. She gave me purpose, and she doesn’t even know it.”

“I belong with you,” I tell him as I push his shirt off his shoulders. “I’ve told you this before, and I’ll say it again: I chose to love you, Xavier Kingston. The good, the bad, and everything in between. I know exactly who you are, now more than ever before, and I’d still choose you.”

I’m learning the hard way that his silence cuts deeper than anything he could say to me, and God, it hurts

“You once told me that I shouldn’t lower my standards just because you failed to meet them,

I’m done expecting better from someone who is more attached to his fears and insecurities than to me. You made me fall for you, only to push me away and show me that my love isn’t worth fighting for. You built me up, only to shake the foundations I thought we had, and you didn’t even have the decency to watch me fall apart. Even so, I was convinced that you’d snap out of it, that you’d realize that what we have is worth everything — every risk, every nightmare you had to endure just to wake up to me. I was certain, Xavier, because all along, I was willing to risk dying if that’s what it took to be with you.”

“I refuse to be with someone who isn’t willing to heal from the scars left behind by his past.

I should’ve tried harder, should never have given up on the only woman I’ve ever loved…