" She began tying a garter. “Peter was unhappy when I didn’t become pregnant.” He waited. She sighed, not looking at him. “Eventually, he went to another woman.”
Damned, stupid bastard. Edward flung back the bedcovers and paced to the window. “Were you in love with him?” The question was bitter on his tongue, but he was compelled to ask it. “In the beginning, when we were first married.” She still smoothed the tattered silk over her calves. “Not at the end.”
“I see.” He paid for another man’s sins.
No, I don’t think you can.” She picked up the remaining garter and stared at it in her hands. “When a man betrays a woman in such a way, it breaks something in her that I’m not sure can ever be repaired. "
― Elizabeth Hoyt , The Raven Prince (Princes Trilogy, #1)