She wasn't even looking at him. Ford grimaced. He should maybe write this off as a lost cause, because this conversation wasn't resolving their argument and might have even been making it worse. If Miss Farley picked up on it Ford could just say Verity was always like that. But that wasn't fair to Verity — and he did wish he could repair the relationship, honestly. Sometimes it was just impossible to see a route from here to there.
"I know you've got plenty of reasons to hate me," he said eventually. All the little ways he'd had to crush her dreams while she was a debutante, pretending she was being unreasonable and ridiculous when the reality was they were just broke; her sham marriage that he had failed to stop; lying to her about what had happened with Miss Farley. "And I deserve it. But I hope you know I still love you."
"I know you've got plenty of reasons to hate me," he said eventually. All the little ways he'd had to crush her dreams while she was a debutante, pretending she was being unreasonable and ridiculous when the reality was they were just broke; her sham marriage that he had failed to stop; lying to her about what had happened with Miss Farley. "And I deserve it. But I hope you know I still love you."
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