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Nortia's POV

No one has done what he did for me. I sat speechless, staring at him while fighting the urge to shed those tears that clung to my throat because it was so different, so different from what I had been expecting.

“ Why?” I asked, emotions clinging to my throat as I did. Shoving down the tears that attempted to walk up my eyes, I questioned.

“ What did I do that you would do something like that for me?”

I hated that I kept comparing him to Maxwell but he was the only one I had been with, the one who had shown me love in such a way that I never knew would be possible, claimed to have loved me but had hurt me beyond repair.

I let his hands slip underneath my hair, he held a finger over my face, running it gently as a smile crested across his face at me.

“ Because you are my wife, Nortia,” he answered.

I gulped in, nodding my head while fiddling with my fingers. That had to be it, what exactly was I thinking about? That he would love me?

It was too soon, and besides no o
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