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Fay glares at him a little. “Sure, I can have whatever I want,

except, you know, the freedom to leave this house. A marriage to someone who loves me.”

Daniel tilts his head, truly wanting to make it better. “I love you, Fay. In my own way.”

She sighs, knowing he means well.

“I just don’t care about all of this, Daniel,” she says. “I don’t care about this wealth and power that everyone thinks is so important. Plus, you’re forgetting the fact that all of this wealth and power come with the heavy pricetag of violence.”

Daniel screws his mouth to the side, admitting, silently, that she’s

right.

“Don’t you want to choose your own lover?” She asks, leaning forward eagerly. “Instead of being assigned one?”

He hesitates, squeezing her hand. “I kind of did pick you, Fay. And you picked me. Even before I knew we were ‘assigned.“”

I had all the information,” she murmurs. Back when she thought he was Prince Charming, not the heir to a mafia cartel.

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to a woman, and even if he knew it wouldn’t be

want me to be?” she

is no- his wife would be expected to stay home, manage his social affairs, raise their kids. But he

says, speaking the truth for both of them. “But

to his heart. Fay Thompson, this poor,

pathetic. He hangs

sorry, Fay,” he says softly. “I’ll do

happy.”

moves until she’s sitting next to him, putting

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Daniel, I’m not going to leave you

her, then, realizing that she still plans to escape. He doesn’t burst

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