Jane Porter – Rumours: The Dishonoured Copelands: The Fallen Greek Bride (The Disgraced Copelands) / His Defiant Desert Queen (The Disgraced Copelands) / Her Sinful Secret (The Disgraced Copelands) (страница 24)
“Who said love was supposed to make sense?”
She exhaled hard, in a quick, desperate rush, and she had to blink hard to clear her vision. “Did you
“How can you doubt it?”
She frowned, thinking, trying to remember. Why had she doubted it? Why had she not felt loved? How did she get from besotted bride to runaway wife?
He reached out, tipped her chin up, so he could look deeper into her eyes. “Morgan, tell me. How could you doubt me?”
“Because after our honeymoon … after we left here … I didn’t feel loved….” Her voice drifted off as she struggled to piece it together. How lost she’d felt in Athens, how confused waiting for him all day, needing him so much that when he walked through the door, she didn’t know if she should run to him, or hide, ashamed for feeling so empty. “But then, after a while, I didn’t feel anything anymore—” She broke off, bit down into her lip, piercing the skin. “No, that’s not true. I did feel something. I felt crazy, Drakon. I felt crazy living with you.”
“Don’t say that.”
“It’s true.”
He stepped away from her, turned and faced the sea, then rubbed his palm across the bristles on his jaw.
Morgan watched him just long enough to see the pain in his eyes. She’d hurt him. Again.
Hating herself, hating what they did to each other, she slipped past him and continued down the stairs to the water’s edge.
She had to get out of here. And she had to get out of here soon.
HE SWORE SOFTLY, and shook his head.
God, that woman was frustrating. And to think he hadn’t just fallen in love with her, but he’d married her.
Long before his wedding day, Drakon had been warned by other men that getting married changed things. He’d been warned that wives—and marriage—were a lot of work. But Drakon hadn’t been daunted. He didn’t mind work. He’d succeeded because he’d always worked hard, put in long hours, never expecting life to be easy.
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