Leo’s fingers closed around hers. “No?”

“No. But I have conditions.”

“Of course you do.”

“No lies about danger. No decisions about my body or my life without me. No calling me your woman unless I have agreed to be.”

Leo leaned closer. “Have you?”

Chloe studied the man before her. He was not good because he loved her. Love did not erase what he had done or excuse the empire he had built. But for the first time in his life, Leo was willing to surrender power instead of using it.