Virtuous Lies (Lies of the Underworld, #1)

by Haley Jenner

He’d dress me down like a whore, while he safeguarded me like his queen.

“I love you without obligation, without expectation. My love is the truest you’ll ever feel, the deepest you’ll ever know. I thought you knew that.”

“I told you I had no capacity for love, afraid you would never find it in you to love me back. I loved you before you knew I was an option. You knew I existed, but you had no idea of the way my heart longed to beat your name.”