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Оглавление“I need a wife,” Reuben murmured. “My son needs a mother.”
Ellie tensed. She picked Ethan up and gave him to his father. “You want to fall in love and marry again?”
“Nay, I’ll marry, but I won’t fall in love.”
“You’d wed without love?”
“I’d wed for Ethan.” He combed his fingers through Ethan’s baby-fine hair. “But love? Nay. I don’t want or need it.”
What woman would agree to such an arrangement? “I see.” She reached for her satchel on the other end of the counter. “I should get home.”
She felt Reuben watching her as she picked up her bag. She was conscious of him as he followed her out of the house.
With a last look in his direction as she pulled away, Ellie wondered how a man who obviously loved his son could dismiss love in marriage so easily. What woman would be happy to be married to such a man and not fall in love with him? And with his son?
