Total pages in book: 247
Estimated words: 234281 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1171(@200wpm)___ 937(@250wpm)___ 781(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 234281 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1171(@200wpm)___ 937(@250wpm)___ 781(@300wpm)
Because there were just so many those important little things...
The brush of his knuckles against her cheek, the drift of his fingers down her spine...
So, so much.
With every single thing the professor said and did, he just had this way of making her feel like she alone was what he had been waiting for.
And that's why I'm so scared, too.
His entire life, he had been waiting for her. Just her.
I don't want to lose him, Saint M.
Because as bittersweet and beautiful the past week had been, they had been just as brutal as well, with expert after expert telling Diana in not so many words they thought the whole thing was doomed to fail.
His accountant had looked at her like he believed she was only with his employer for the money, and while the size of the professor's personal fortune had indeed been a surprise, Diana had also been hurt and incensed on the professor's behalf. So much so she had her own accountant come over and let everyone who cared to know her own wealth could match Matthijs' penny for penny.
Petty or not, she needed everyone to understand she was with Matthijs because she loved him.
Diana had said as much when she was confronted with the same amount of skepticism from Matthijs' lawyer. But while Arthur Folsgaard was less obnoxious than the accountant, he had been a lot more cold-blooded and mercilessly blunt.
My client expressly forbade me from doing this, but since I'm being paid to look after his interests and not yours...
She had taken the piece of paper Arthur offered, which turned out to be what he wished would comprise of her sworn legal statement.
I have not been forced or coerced in any way...
I am fully aware of the illness that Mr. Matthijs de Graaf was diagnosed with...
I entered into a consensual relationship of my own free will...
She had signed it on the spot, and sensing Arthur's surprise, she had said simply, "I'm in this for the long haul."
But if she had thought the words would impress him, it had the opposite effect.
"Bravo, Ms. Leventis," he said mockingly. "You've just proven to me what I suspected."
"I truly love him—-"
"Maybe you do and maybe you don't," Arthur had cut her off flatly. "Either way, loving someone is no excuse to be an idiot and not think things through." He had then dealt Diana a contemptuous look, saying, "You think you know what you're in for, but you don't. You think it's enough that you've read up on things, but it's not. You can never give Matthijs a blowjob unless he's wearing a condom. Taking medications will no longer be an option. It's a necessity, and if you miss a single dose, your life can fall apart in a blink. And what of the future, and you suddenly find yourself wanting a child of your own - you really think you won't resent him for preventing you from being a mother? You say you've thought this through, but I don't think so. I think you haven't thought of this at all, and I think my client's making a big mistake, trusting you to stay with him until the end."
Together
Cherish by The Association
THE PROFESSOR PARKED his sports car by the curb and stepped out, a picture of elegant perfection in his tweeds and dark aviator glasses shielding his leonine gaze.
With the sun in a particularly good mood on a Saturday afternoon, there were more people than usual on the streets, and all of the females who happened to walk past the professor weren't able to resist staring at him.
An all-grown-up, smoking-hot, fuck-me-now angel.
That was how all of them saw him.
An angel, who also happened to be in love.
This, too, was the public consensus, with the professor's austere expression only softening when a dark-haired girl come out of the hospital across the street. They watched him take his glasses off as the girl came running down the steps, they saw their eyes meet, and they knew. There was just no doubting it, with that look in his eyes.
That man was head over heels...and so was she.
Color had blossomed in her cheeks upon seeing her beau, and the moment the pedestrian lights turned green, it was as if she had grown wings, with the girl dashing and practically flying in her haste to be with the man waiting for her on the other side.
"Whoa." Once again, her sudden weight threatened his balance, but also just like before, Matthijs' proved too strong and too powerful, and soon Diana felt his arm going around her waist as he regained his footing.
"Hello."
Her smile was irresistible, and he found himself smiling down at her. "Hello."
So far, so good, Diana thought impishly, and so she raised her face for a kiss.
But her wiles didn't work this time, and she burst into laughter when the professor responded by rolling his pretty golden eyes at her.