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Jenna hadn’t wanted this life. She’d made that clear from the beginning. Had made it clear when she’d walked out of his life, pregnant withLily.
When she’d kept Lily a secret for five longyears.
Their time together on the run had seemed to change her mind, but as much as he hated to admit it, his fearlingered.
Fear that she would change her mind. That being his wife was a bridge toofar.
He let go of the box in his pocket and focused his attention on Rome in the distance. They had a whole week ahead of them at Nico’s compound. There would be food and family, minimal business talk, plentiful time to show Jenna that she was still his number onepriority.
That he would be a good husband toher.
And if she said no, it would still be okay. He’d never been traditional anyway, had never wanted the trappings of marriage. The desire to call Jenna his wife was childish, a relic of convention that had been dead to him since quitting Oxford and embarking on a life ofcrime.
Whatever her answer to his proposal, they were together. They shared a child. They loved each other with a totality unknown to most people in theworld.
Those were the things thatmattered.
He didn’t need marriage to know that she loved him — or to know that he would love her until his lastbreath.
It was one of the only things he knew wastrue.
