I Refuse to Divorce novel (Zoe and Mason) novel Chapter 115

Turning on the bedside lamp, Mason sat up, leaned on the headboard, and looked at her, “What do you think?”

Zoe had no answer for that.

Smiling faintly, he spoke. His deep voice sounded especially moving in the night.

“I’ve never loved anyone from the bottom of my heart, Zoe, and I don’t know what it feels like to be in love. However, this is the first time I've ever cared about someone. I care about you so much that I ditched my principles. I even followed you to your parents' place and fixed the leaky pipe in their kitchen.”

Pausing briefly, he kept going, “Do you think I did all that just to find someone to sleep with? I think you know that a lot of women would throw themselves at me if that’s what I wanted.”

Zoe refused to go along with it. “Well. I’m not stopping you.”

He chuckled in response. His eyes looked dashing in the glow from the lamp. His brows exuded a charm that only mature men possessed. She knew, deep down, that any woman would serve herself up on a silver plate to him.

Touching her cheeks gently, he said, “Perhaps I'm getting along in age, but I actually look forward to building a family of my own. I want to have a baby with you, Zoe. I don’t mind if it’s a boy or a girl. But what I want most of all is your love. I want you to have eyes for me and only me, like what you wrote in your diary.”

At first, he thought he didn’t mean what he said, that his words were merely one of the means to keep her with him. However, a thought struck him when he blurted out those words.

He wanted to forget about his past and start a new life with her. He wanted to love her from the bottom of his heart!

However, the ridiculous thoughts only passed through his mind for a fleeting moment. Perhaps he had a taste of family life and that softened him up. He couldn’t believe he actually thought of loving her for real.

On the other hand, Zoe had loved him since she was young. So, what he said touched her heart to a certain extent. It was just that she had been tortured far too much in the past few years and she couldn’t muster up the courage to love someone again, much less Mason.

Tears welled up in her eyes. She leaned on the headboard and stared at the wall across the room quietly.

Much time passed before she said softly, “I can’t tell if you’re being serious, Mason. If you are, I must tell you it’s too late. I can’t stand a third person meddling in our marriage! For that matter, I’m also not sure if you really mean everything you say or if you're just being impulsive.

“You say you want my love today, but you might change your mind and cast me aside like a broken doll tomorrow.”