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separation.”
    “You’re right. I want a divorce.”
    The words fell between us like an iron anvil. I couldn’t help but notice the shock deep in his eyes. Was my reaction really that surprising?
    “You can’t divorce me,” he said haughtily. He might have well said, Don’t you know who I am?
    I didn’t bother to reply . Instead, I went over to the dining room table where I laid the papers out and proceeded to sign all the places marked with a yellow arrow. When I was finished, I looked up.
    “Talie,” he said , coming forward. He took the pen out of my hand and laid it on the table. He took me by the shoulders and turned me to face him. “I’m sorry that I hurt you.”
    “You did,” I admitted, my voice low.
    “I know, baby,” he said, drawing me into his chest and wrapping his arms around me. “We can get through this. We can put it behind us and move on. Don’t you want to have a baby?”
    He knew I wanted a baby. I wanted one passionately.
    “Everything’s changed,” I said, my voice muffled against him.
    He made a sound of disagreement and stroked the back of my head. I suddenly felt like I was a dog being patted on the head. “Nothing’s changed if you don’t want it to be. Tear up these papers. Come home. I’ll take over the company and we can start a family. You’ll be a mother just like you always dreamed.”
    Blake palmed my face and pulled me back to look into my eyes. I couldn’t stop the tears from welling up inside them. He was offering me everything we planned. Everything I wanted.
    “What about her ?” I said bitterly.
    “Don’t think about her ,” he said gently. “ You’re my wife. You’re the one I chose to marry. The one I chose to give my name.”
    He made it sound like I won the lottery or something. What about love?
    “Once the baby comes, you’ll be so busy you won’t even have time to think of her. I’ll be discreet and—”
    I jerked like he slapped me. He might as well have the way his words stung. “You’ll be discreet?” I said, yanking myself away.
    He sighed wearily.
    “You mean to tell me you have no intention of not sleeping around on me?”
    I always thought of Blake as a smart man… but I’d never heard anything more asinine come out of anyone’s mouth. Ever.
    “I’m a successful, powerful man ,” he replied. “I have needs that you just can’t fulfill.”
    Oh. My. God.
    Did he really just say that? Out loud? To my face?
    I was speechless. Completely and utterly speechless.
    He must have taken my silence for compliance because the idiot shoved his foot even farther down his throat. “But, baby, you are my only wife. The mother to my unborn children. It will be you at my side for all my achievements, your name splashed across the business pages in connection to mine. You’ll never want for anything.”
    “ Except a husband who loves me. Who respects me. Who wants only me.”
    “This isn’t some fairytale, Talie. This is the real world.”
    I didn’t realize love and respect was only for the movies. Silly me.
    I picked up the pen. “Sign the papers.”
    His eyes widened.
    “If you think I’m the type of girl who will sit home and take care of your kids while you go shove your dick into any hole that will take you , just so I can have the prestige of your name, then you have no clue who the hell you married.”
    Twin spots of pink flushed his cheeks. “That was crude.”
    “Yeah? Well, it’s nothing compared to what I’m thinking.”
    “We’re married. For better or worse. We are not getting divorced.”
    “Oh, we are,” I said, rising up to my full five feet two inches. “And if you don’t sign these papers right now, the name that you so graciously gave me on our wedding day will be filling up the gossip columns around here. Whatever will your daddy say about that?”
    He paled. “You wouldn’t.”
    “Freaking try me.”
    He studied me for long moments , and I didn’t back down. I meant it. I was so utterly shocked and