âFrom me! I am trying to protect you from me. Because the moment were seen together outside the walls of my office or the pent house, your privacy will vanish. Every tabloid this side of the river will want to know about every little dirty secret. I donât want to subject you to that Eden or the baby.â He told her, she thought that this was all about the baby but it wasnât. It wasnât the night she fell asleep on his shoulder and he realized he was in love with her, it wasnât every other night after that. âIâm sorry you donât want to listen to the next planned scandals, but those scandals keep you safe, keep you with having the life that you have outside of me.â Though that life killed him because he wanted to be apart of it. He had thought this would be simple, sheâd be a surrogate and heâd get a child out of the deal but then she had to end up as the damn light of his life. When she said she quit he felt his heart stop... because a life without her in it? His empire would mean nothing again. âYou quit what...?â He asked cautiously but he didnât want to know, he didnât want to hear the words he knew was coming next. She was to soft for a life with him, and maybe it was for the best he let her walk away. Because then sheâd get to live the life she wanted and well heâd keep his mouth shut and suck it up having a woman he loved leave him again.