Chapter 75

“And what do you think?”

“That love marriages are, historically speaking, a recent thing.” She reached for her mascara. “History is littered with successful marriages built without love.”

And she’d spent an hour searching her phone for examples of them while waiting for Nicholas to collect her.

“I bet those successful marriages had great sex at their core.”

“But only with each other.” She held his gaze a moment longer before applying her mascara, trying her hardest to keep her hand steady so she didn’t poke herself in the eye at the lie she’d just uttered. Most of the successful non-love marriages she’d read about had only been successful because both spouses had either turned a blind eye to other lovers or explicitly agreed to them. She knew there was no way she could tolerate or accept infidelity—just the thought of Nicholas in the arms of another woman made her stomach churn violently—and had searched even harder for the faithful marriages. But those had b