Just content. Stable. That was all I wanted.
Everyone had a past, including me.
Gideon had expected this marriage to fail, but I would show him. The desire to prove Gideon wrong helped steel my resolve.
I was going to marry Ivan. We were going to make this work. I didn’t care what Gideon thought.
Gideon’s POV
Hours later, Claire still hadn’t opened my message. Her lack of response made me annoyed. The way she was disregarding all of the concerns I had presented made me furious.
Even if she could accept Ivan as he was, surrendering herself to a loveless marriage where Ivan got to play out his fantasies of Lena, how could Claire put the children in a family like that? They deserved to see two parents in love. We were supposed to be their role models and their guardians.
I did not want
