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“Thank you for letting me try, Finn,” she whispered.
“I want to give you the fucking world, baby,” I said gruffly. “It kills me that I can’t give you the big family you want, but I need to look after you—”
“You always look after me,” she retorted staunchly.
“Yeah, well, this is my way of keeping up with that.” I trailed my finger along her cheekbone.
“Thank you for not going behind my back, Finn.”
She wasn’t to know that I did nothing behind her back. I was keeping enough from her, and the least I could do was be candid with her on everything else.
Aoife tucked her face against my side, and as we stared into the fire, I knew we were both thinking about what we should have had, but what life had taken from us.
I’d apologized a thousand times for what had happened on our wedding day, but this was my true punishment. Not giving the woman who was my life the one, simple thing her man should give her—the large family she wanted.
She suffered for my sins, and I had to live with that every goddamn day.
