“Proud of you too,” he said, shooting me a sidelong look. “All of us are. It’s been damn interesting to watch you come into your own the past few months. You should know, the men love you because of you, not because you’re D’s wife. They started to fall when you hated him.” He laughed. “I think for Addie and Marco, it happened the moment you refused to move into the apartment. They’d never seen anyone but Tore or me stand up to him before.”
