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“No. Neither do I. And so it is a strange thing, I find. This union.”
“You don’t have any regrets, do you? Because you could get rid of me. You could’ve told me anything.”
“I brought you here and kept you for a reason.”
And she wanted him to say that it was because he loved her. Because she had assumed that he must.
But he had never said the word, she realized then.
But he must. He must. Because everything had moved so quickly.
You did get pregnant...
It made her wonder. If that was the only reason. But then, her mother had gotten pregnant, and it had meant nothing to her father. She didn’t even know him. So it wasn’t as if pregnancy meant by default that a man would marry you, stick by you, give you twenty-four-hour care in his palatial estate.
No. It didn’t mean any of that. And so, she supposed she shouldn’t worry so much about what words had been used or not.
And maybe, soon she would have the courage to ask. But until she could say it to him... She supposed she couldn’t ask that he say it to her.
Though she was beginning to feel like... It was so strange. She couldn’t remember even kissing the man, but she was beginning to feel like this was love.
She knew that she loved Soriya. It was instantaneous. The moment she had seen the child not only had she known that she was hers, she had been infused with an intense conviction that she would protect this child at all costs.
And that she would love her, at the expense of all else.
Because she did love her. With everything.
And so, maybe it wasn’t so strange that she felt like she was falling in love with Krav.
Maybe it wasn’t so strange at all.
And now he had answered her questions. About how it had happened.
She was glad she couldn’t remember the accident, actually. How terrifying it must’ve been. But it was so hard to imagine what she would’ve felt in that situation, because she had no access to the girl that she’d been at that point.
So many things had changed in her life in the last ten months, and she couldn’t remember any of them.
It was such a strange thing.
The plane touched down in Paris almost too quickly, and she would not have ever said that she would wish for a plane ride to go on longer, but the jet was just so lovely and comfortable, and her glass of champagne had warmed her.
She felt relaxed and...happy. That was the most amazing thing about all of this. She couldn’t remember feeling quite so simply happy in all of her life. Maybe she was shallow. Maybe it had to do with all the money. And while she thought it might help, she really thought it was because of the addition of Krav and Soriya to her life.
“Does Jaia wonder where I am?”
“Jaia abandoned you, and I don’t think she has worried much about you since,” he said as they got into a limousine that was waiting for them at the airport.
“It’s really no wonder that I’m so happy to accept my life here with you,” she said. “Everyone in my life before was so...”
“Useless,” he responded, the word carrying an edge, even as he grinned.
But that grin looked dangerous. And it felt like a knife-edge against her soul.
He knew her. Her flaws, her vulnerabilities. He remembered everything she’d ever told him. And he was...she felt things with a certain level of confidence where he was concerned, but it was nothing she could confirm. Nothing she could put into words.
She didn’tknowthings about him. She only felt them. Whereas she was a book he’d read cover to cover and retained every word.
It felt exposing. Unfair.
