“Never apologize, not to me. But what do you think you should apologize for?”
“For what I thought when I first thought of asking you for this.”
“What did you think?”
“That you’d never do anything out of the goodness of your heart. That you don’t have one.”
A mirthless huff escaped him. “You were right. I don’t have one. Not in any humanly accepted sense.”
“From where I’m sitting, you have something better. I thought you’d never do anything for anyone without something of equal or more value in it for you, and I was wrong.”
“Maybe you should withdraw your apology. Since you weren’t wrong. I do want something.”
Her heart forgot to beat. “You do?”
“Yes.” He held her gaze in the snare of his. “An heir.”
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