The Devious Husband (The Windsors, #6)

by Catharina Maura

“I’ll never want you,” she snaps. “Not in a million years.” I cup the back of her neck, my thumb brushing over her pulse point. “Then I’ll wait a million years and a day, Kitten. I’ll wait forever if I need to, so long as you understand that you’re mine as much as I’m yours.”

I picked the best diamonds I could find, and yet, they don’t shine as brightly as you do.

I’ll be waiting at the altar; a million years and a day, if that’s what it takes.

“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.”

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

“You’re just as delusional as he is,” Graham says, laughing. “You could never get on his bad side, because he’s always been on your side. You just never realized it, and those of us who did never understood just how deep his affection for you ran.”

“Fine,” I tell him. “Let’s sell the company. If you’re so busy that it’s keeping you from me, it’s not worth having. Sell it.”

“I’ll wait a million years and a day, Xavier, if that’s what it takes.”