Takeover In The Boardroom. Fiona Brand

      Maddie laughed. “Even you are not infallible, Vik.”

      “Miss Grayson knew.”

      “She’s my best friend.”

      “What am I?”

      “The man I’m going to marry. The man I’m falling in love with all over again.” There, she’d said it.

      What he did with that knowledge was up to him. But one thing she knew, it was time he met Maddie Grace.

      Silence stretched between them.

      “Vik?”

      “I am...honored.”

      “Good.” That was better than thinking she was a fool for believing in the emotion.

      “You...I...” For the first time in memory, Vik didn’t sound in complete control of his words or his thoughts.

      “I don’t expect you to say it back.”

      “Good.” The relief in his tone was not complimentary, but she wasn’t surprised by it, either.

      “You’ll never lie to me,” she said, as if just making that revelation.

      But maybe she understood the depth of his commitment to honesty between them fully for the first time.

      “No, I will not.”

      That included not claiming to love her when he didn’t, but it also meant that his promises? Were written in concrete as far as Viktor Beck was concerned.