Chapter 415
- Rafael didn’t rush me.
- He didn’t press when I didn’t say the words I knew he longed to hear. That’s the thing about real love it waits. It doesn’t demand or measure. And Rafael, for all his steel in the boardroom, showed me nothing but quiet patience in moments like that.
- He knew I’d say it eventually in my own time, in my own way. And he was willing to wait.