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“This is why I didn’t want children. But we’re here now, so we’ll do what we must. You’ll marry me.”

“No…” Cinnia said in a husk of a voice, her lips white.

Henri drew in a tested breath, frustration returning in a flood of heat. “Did you hear what I just said?”

“Yes, I heard you. Fine. I’ll live behind your iron curtain, but—” She swallowed. “But I won’t marry you.”

Her chin came up in what he knew was her standing-her-ground face. His ears buzzed as he sifted through her words. “What do you mean?”

“I mean I’ll live with you, but I won’t live with you.” She flushed and pulled her shoulders up defensively around her ears.

“You don’t want to sleep with me?” His heart bottomed out. She couldn’t mean that.

She flinched and looked away, blinking hard. “No. I don’t.”

“Liar.” It came out of him as a breath of absolute truth.