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Chapter 49 What's Your Real Purpose

Chapter 49 What's Your Real Purpose

Oh, no!

I've been caught!

Isabel gripped the man's shirt tigluly, her thoughts racing frantically.

Should I fleet

No, that's not an option! I'm no longer the same Isabel I used in be

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In her previous life, she had been known as the "Lone Wolf, living a solitary existence free from emotional ties.

But things were different now; she had someone who mattered to her.

She couldn't leave Reggie behind.

So running away was out of the question.

With no possibility of escape, she had to devise a believable excuse for her presence.

Breaking into a man's room at night and getting caught-it was tough to find a rational explanati

that!

As Isabel wrestled with her thoughts, Xander stepped forward.

"Look at me."

His authoritative tone sent a shiver of anxiety down henspine.

Should I comply or not?

If I don't it might raise suspicions.

Yet if I do, what if he reads something in my expression?

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she could process her options, Xander gently grasped her chin,

she looked

does

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sent a

So I've been discovered!

her hesitation

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"I know you came

here for me."

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aback, her mind struggling to follow his

Xander teased, a playful

I supposed to admit?" With each word he spoke, Isabel felt increasingly

and continued, "Sam was right-you didn't marry me out of spite, your

to the shirt

much?" Xander chuckled, a smug look on his face as he watched

had felt a surge of emotions. Had he not been careful, he might have swept her up and taken her to bed, acting on their unspoken desires right then and there. "Wait, what?" Isabel nearly choked on her own breath, hastily trying to clarify. "You've misunderstood! I

decided to rummage through my clothes? Just holding my shir!

found herself

Fine. I'll make it impossible for you to deny." Xander pulled out his phone and opened a recording app-it was a

mistress of this house. Beyond that, I plan to drug him, strip him of everything, and ensure that

in disbelief, her eyes glued to

now?" Xander asked, a

Isabel.

to

no doubt; that recording was Rachel's

for convincing Xander that she had ulterior motives-that she had entered his room under the cover of night

actually makes things easier; I can

herself, shaking off the panic that threatened to overtake her, and met Xander's gaze with

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at that moment made me well, 1 just-ahem-lost my composure." As she spoke, a wave of uncontainable joy surged within Xander, enveloping him like the gentle warmth

nor

take advantage of you, would I allow myself to develop feelings. So

her performance,

just needed to maintain her facade of sadness as she prepared

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