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He never loved her. He made sure she knew it. Elias Everhart never wanted the wife his family chose for him, and he has spent every day of their marriage reminding her that she was unwanted. She learned to apologize for taking up space, to swallow every word before it reached her lips, and eventually, to stop expecting anything from him at all. He thought that was what he wanted. A wife who finally understood her place. He just never imagined how quiet she would become once she stopped trying to reach him.