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For a moment he could do nothing but close his eyes. Was this a taste of the rest of his life as Billie Bridgerton__ husband? Was he destined to live in terror, wondering what sort of danger she__ thrown herself into that day? Was it worth it?__eorge?_ she whispered. She sounded uneasy. Had she seen something in his expression? A sign of doubt? He touched her cheek, and he looked into her eyes. He saw his whole world there.__ love you,_ he said. Someone gasped. It might have been his mother. __ cannot live without you,_ he said, __nd in fact, I refuse to do so. So no, you will not be going on some ill-advised mission to the coast to hand off a potentially dangerous package to people you don__ know. Because if anything happened to you_ His voice broke, but he didn__ care. __f anything happened to you, it would kill me. And I__ like to think you love me too much to let that happen._ Billie stared at him in wonder, her softly parted lips trembling as she blinked back tears. __ou love me?_ she whispered. He nearly rolled his eyes. __f course I do._ __ou never said._ __ must have done._ __ou didn__. I would have remembered._ __ would remember, too,_ he said softly, __f you__ ever said it to me._ __ love you,_ she said immediately. __ do. I love you so much. I __ __hank God,_ Lady Manston exclaimed. George and Billie both turned.