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"Damn you."
Her tears finally fell, but he was not moved at all, since his heart was still half-dead after what she had made him think.
"I thought you were leaving me for him, damn you!"
"I would never—-" She suddenly stopped speaking, and she was now looking at him like she was seeing him for the first time.
"You're jealous," his wife whispered.
Lorenzo was this close to shaking some sense into her.
Why was she suddenly talking like an idiot?
"Of course I'm jealous," he snarled down at her. "How the hell can I not be jealous when everyone knows Bianciardi is a much better man—-"
"I love you," his wife blurted out.
And just like that, Lorenzo completely forgot what he had to say.
"I've known it for some time," Gazelle confessed unevenly, "but I was worried I'd scare you off if I told you."
All he could do was stare at her, and a smile wobbled over her lips.
"That hurt me earlier, you know."
"I...hurt you?"
She nodded, and his chest tightened.
"I'm sorry," Lorenzo said tautly. "I didn't know I was hurting you or how I was hurting you—-"
"I know that now. But earlier, when you were just suddenly so silent—-"
He finally understood where her pain was coming from, and his chest tightened all the more.
"It was like you suddenly changed."
Her voice broke, and his own heart broke with her.
"I'm sorry, tesoro."
She started crying in earnest as soon as he called her his treasure, and all he could do was take her in his arms.
"I thought you g-grew bored with me," she choked out.
That he had made her think such a thing flayed him.
"Mi dispiace." I'm sorry. "I never meant to hurt you. But seeing you with another man, and hearing the things he said, and thinking that you believed him—-"
"I understand." His wife wiped her tears away with the back of her hand. "I just wished I had figured it out sooner."
"Figured out what?"
"What you kept secret from me."
Lorenzo stiffened. "I have never lied to you—-"
"But you never told me you're different with me either."
