Signed In Silence
"If you sign this contract, we will need to conceive a child. Naturally."
I stared at him. The room was suddenly too small.
"Two years," I said. "Two years of pretending to be your wife. Two years of—" I couldn't finish the sentence.
"Two years," he agreed. "And then you walk away with everything."
"And what about love?" I asked again. "What about... what about feelings?"
He leaned forward, and for the first time, something sharp entered his voice.
"Let me make something clear." His eyes pinned me in place. "I'm not offering you a fairy tale. I'm offering you a contract. I don't care about your feelings. I don't care about love. I only care about the outcome ."