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Loving Lucien

[This Book Is Complete] Starlet yearns for her husband to love her but the way he was coerced into matrimony makes him hate her instead. Their two and a half years of marriage has been a miserable one for Starlet. She has had everything she has ever wanted as the daughter of the richest man in their society but what she wants most, her husband’s heart has been closed off to her. Despite the hurt he has put her through Starlet feels she can make him love her. She refuses to see any other outcome. Although the idea of her husband looking elsewhere for female company has been so far, internet articles and images of him being with another woman spark something in Starlet. Up to this point she has been taking the punishment her husband has been giving her but she has had enough. She decides that she had to show him her strengths and make him love her. She forces him to write a post nuptial agreement (which only fills him with more bitterness toward her) and underhandedly gets rid of his mistress. Somewhere along the line her husband begins to warm up to her. She feels that they may have a good married life together. Their past however make Starlet question the affection he shows. If it is true or calculated. She struggles with the decision to keep him bound to her or if loving him truly would be to let him loose. She wonders if he would be happier without her and with a woman who claims to be his first real love.

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Chapter 23

Lucien watched as his wife walked across the room on her way to the kitchen. She was not talking to him except through email CCs to the lawyers and his Ayanda. He didn't know how to approach her. He feared there was no way to fix the damage he had dealt. She was being reasonable. That scared him. What cards was she holding? What level of emotion lay behind that calm demeanour?

He had never felt this ashamed and guilty in his life. He deserved whatever pain she decided to give to him. He regretted questioning her morals when they last spoke. It was just a reflex reaction… One that was all the same unfair to her.

He wanted to open his mouth and apologise but the words died in his throat. He didn't know where to start. He didn't exactly know what to apologise for first. He knew he was responsible for the cracks in their marriage. She probably hated him. He feared that she was staying with him out of a misguided sense of duty or simply pride.