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There was soerton, he decided She was smart—very smart—but she had a certain air about her, as if she was used to always being the ent person in the roo in her oay, and he iined that she would have to have learned to speak her own est of eight, after all

But it didher at a loss for words It was fun to befuddle her Gareth didn’t knohy he didn’tit more often

He watched as she set her glass down “Tell rand?”

“You don’t believe I came of my own free will?”

She lifted one brow He was impressed He’d never known a female who could do that

“Very well,” he said, “there was a great deal of hand fluttering, then so about a visit to her physician, and then I believe she sighed”

“Just once?”

He quirked a brow back at her “I’erton It took a full half hour to break me”

She nodded “You are good”

He leaned toward her and ss,” he murmured

She blushed, which pleased hihtily, but then she said, “I’ve been warned about men like you”

“I certainly hope so”

She laughed “I don’t think you’re nearly as dangerous as you’d like to be thought”

He tilted his head to the side “And why is that?”

She didn’t answer right away, just caught her lower lip between her teeth as she pondered her words “You’re far too kind to your grandmother,” she finally said