After The Billionaire's Wedding Vows…
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“You thought everything would go back to the way it was.”
“Thought? No. Feared? Yes. I’m truly sorry, but yes.” She hadn’t trusted him. Not even a little. No matter how hard he’d been trying, Polly had struggled to believe the changes would be permanent.
But something had changed. Something inside her and maybe something inside him.
“And you do not fear this now?” he asked, like checking the facts.
“No. Now especially, I know.” After his offer to give up the legacy his father had left him and move to another country, she really knew. “I know that it’s worth fighting for what I need. It’s worth fighting for our family.”
“But it wasn’t before.”
“Before, I genuinely believed I wasn’t that important to you.” That all her fighting and arguing was just wasted energy.
“And now you believe differently?”
“You’ve made a lot of concessions for my happiness, things I didn’t recognize as such even before your rescue bid for our marriage.”
“No
t enough.”
“No, maybe it wasn’t enough, not then. At least not for me to keep trusting you with my heart.”
“But you trust me now. You told me you love me.”
“And I meant it.”
“As did I.”
“I know.”
“You believe.” His smile was incandescent.
She was feeling pretty glowy herself. “Yes, I believe.”
He took a deep breath, like girding himself to say something difficult. “I think you should consider us moving to America.”
“There is no need. I’m not going to think about doing something that will hurt you and I never wanted to begin with.”
“But—”
“No, Andros. This is our life and I can love this life as long as I know that the children and I are some of your top priorities. That you love me for me, not the emulation of the perfect Greek society wife your mom tried to make me into.”
“I have always loved you for you, and I never wanted you to become someone different. Though I can see now that I did a poor job of helping you adjust to our life or believe that. But you and our children are my top priorities.”
“I’ll remind you of that the next time you work until midnight two days in a row.”
“Not going to happen.”
“It will, sometimes…but that’s okay, so long as I know it will be the exception and not the rule.”
“A very rare if ever exception.”
He was such an overachiever, but she loved that about him, so Polly just smiled. “I bet Petros wasn’t keen to take over the company.”
“No, he was not, but he agreed.”
“What was the stick?”