Todos os capítulos de MY WAY TO THE BILLIONAIRE'S HEART : Capítulo 81 - Capítulo 84

The room was very still."What frightens you?" Maeve said.He looked at her."About me," she said. "Specifically. You said I terrify you. I want to know what that means."He was quiet for a long moment. Long enough that she thought he might redirect, might find the professional exit from the question.He didn't."You don't need me," he said.She waited."Every relationship I've ever had — every person who mattered to me — needed something I was in a position to provide. My father needed an heir who reflected well on him. The company needed a leader. Investors needed returns. Elizabeth needed—" he paused, "—Elizabeth needed stability and I was the version of stability she could access at the time." He looked at his hands again. "There was always something. A need I could fill. A gap I could occupy." He paused. "It was the only way I knew how to matter."Maeve was very still."You don't need anything I have," he said. "Not the money, not the position, not the access, not the — none of i

Okay," he said.She set down her tea."Your kindness was real," she said. "I want to be clear that I know it was real. I'm not going to revise what it was to make this easier to say. You saw me when Carter wasn't seeing me, and you treated me like a person when the household was treating me like a function, and that was real and it mattered." She paused. "I need you to hear that first.""I hear it," he said quietly."But Cameron." She kept her voice even, not gentle-to-softness, just honest-to-kindness, the way true things could be said when you cared about the person you were saying them to. "The timing of it was a weapon."Silence."I know you didn't experience it that way," she continued. "I know you believe you were giving me information. Opening a door. Letting me see an option I might not have seen." She looked out the window. "But the morning you came to the lobby — the morning after the hearing, the morning before the board meeting, the morning when Carter was at his most redu