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“Beauty…”
“Why are you doing this to me?”
“Because you deserve to know the truth.”
“Why are you trying to make me hate you more than I already do?”
“You don’t hate me. You just like to pretend you do.”
“None of this will change my mind. Once you launch, this charade is over.”
He didn’t back down. “We’ll see about that.”
If I weren’t already sitting down, his next words would have knocked me on my ass.
With his gaze sternly focused on me, he argued, “I have absolutely no intention of letting you go.”
My eyes went wide. “You can’t be serious.”
“You’re my wife.”
“I’m your fiancée!”
He instantly smiled, loving the fact that I messed up.
“You know what I mean.”
“Do I?”
“Elias, please don’t do this.”
He didn’t listen. In one swift movement, he grabbed my hand, and I was suddenly straddling his lap. I’d be lying if I said I expected what he confessed next…
“I love you, beauty. I never stopped loving you.”
But that didn’t take away the shock I felt in hearing him say those words to me.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
ELIAS
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” —Edgar Allan Poe
“Elias…”
“Capri, you know more than anyone that I always get what I want.”
“At whose expense?”
“Why do you want to rehash the past when we can’t change one thing about it?”
“Because it’s staring me in the face whenever I look at you. You broke my heart, and you just want me to forget and forgive you.”
“We’ve lost so many years together. I can’t lose anymore. I won’t,” I sternly declared.
“Then why didn’t you come back for me?” Her eyes became glossy. “I waited for you, every day, for years. I waited for you to come back to me!”
“Capri…”
