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“She’s the only woman I’ve ever loved.”
“She’s my soulmate.”
My head was spinning.
“I don’t know how I’ve lived over a decade without her.”
“She’s my beginning and end.”
“The first time we made love I knew I was done for.”
“I’ll spend the rest of my life proving to her how much she consumes me.”
“I want to marry her. Make her my wife and the mother of my children.”
Faster and faster it spun with no end in sight.
“She’s my everything—she’s always been my everything.”
“I didn’t know what love was until I let myself truly have her.”
“There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to keep her by my side.”
I slammed the magazine shut. The emotions were one right after the other as I stood there frozen, unable to move, to think, to do anything other than feel like the floor was caving in on me.
I wanted to run to him.
To tell him I loved him.
To forgive him.
But I couldn’t get my feet to move or my guard to come down. Something was holding me back, and I couldn’t ignore that. Instead, after we eaten dinner and Capri went to bed, I found him in his office. Lost in his own thoughts, staring blankly out the window.
“I read the article,” I shared with him.
He turned around and locked eyes with me.
Without reservation, I coaxed, “I forgive you, Julian.”
His bright blue eyes flashed with a blaze of happiness as he stepped toward me, but I lifted my hand, halting his descent. Peering around the room for a few seconds, I battled a visible internal struggle in my mind.
It didn’t take long for him to address the obvious. “You’re here to say goodbye, aren’t you?”
Chapter Thirty-Five
—Autumn—
“Julian.” I paused, wavering for a moment. “I can’t do this with you again. It almost killed me the last time. I’m here to say my piece because we leave tomorrow.”
He narrowed his eyes at me. “Do you honestly think I’m going to just let you leave?”
Taking a deep, solid breath, I willed myself to tell him the truth.
The one I’d been holding in for so damn long.
Opening my mouth, I confessed, “I wanted to get pregnant with your baby, Julian. It wasn’t an accident. I purposely stopped taking my birth control.”
His face paled, and it felt so fucking good to finally admit that out loud.
