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Maybe she should be offended he’d had her investigated, but she wasn’t She was, however, bothered If Sandor wanted a relationship with her, why hadn’t heher investigated? Maybe it wouldn’t be so worrisoation, but he hadn’t

The siood way She’d been raised by ain such a situation, who even now kept her under constant surveillance—ostensibly for her safety’s sake After all, she was the daughter of a very wealthy and influentialthat so-called security to monitor ht his knowledge was going to do for him

If he wanted a better relationship with her, he wasn’t going to have it via a silent security detail Only maybe that was just the way he liked it He felt like he was doing his fatherly duty without getting emotionally involved

“My investigator is very thorough,” Sandor said, breaking into her derailed thoughts

“Even the best investigators make mistakes”

“Perhaps” But she could tell he didn’t believe her

Instead of annoying her, it o back to my apartment and I could prove it to you”

He looked far fro she had no intention of heeding “Are you trying to shock me,pethi mou ?”

“Challenging you, I think” Recklessness filled her to bursting

She didn’t know if it came from the unexpected proposal that had mentioned not one word of love, froet, or from the renewed evidence that her father wanted no emotional connection to her, but the strictures of a lifeti like dominos around her

No, she wasn’t the type of woin and she was darned if she would marry a man who could turn himself off from her so easily She didn’t want Sandor to be like her father She couldn’t stand for their relationship to be as cold and distant

“Why do you feel the need to challengebaffled

It was alant, htforward topic kind of way

“Why don’t you want h to have seduced me?” Or even accepted her sometimes not too subtle invitations?

“I told you”

“You believe I’ht”

“Essentially…yes Perhaps not until the wedding night, but definitely until the wedding is a date on the calendar”