His First Lady
My breath caught in my throat.
“Esther made a sacrifice back then. She saved Thea, even knowing that it would cost her the favoritism of her parents. But, if she hadn’t been that kind, that selfless, then only God knows what would have happened to me. She saved me, and now…”
He looks at me again, with the full intensity of his gaze. The rest of the room seems to vanish. No cameras, no reporters, no one in the entire world but him and me and this thing between us.