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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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could process her options, Xander gently grasped her chin, lifting her face so their eyes could

looked up, Isabel

does it seem like

me, what's your real

words sent a chill through

So I've been discovered!

hesitation appeared as

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"I know you came

here for me."

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was taken aback, her mind

Xander teased, a playful smile dancing

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

tugged his shirt free from her grip and continued, "Sam was right-you didn't marry me out of

at Xander, momentarily speechless, her gaze eventually falling to the shirt he was

much?" Xander chuckled, a

spotting her twisting his shirt in her hands, he 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

through my clothes? Just holding my shir! playing with it like that?"

found herself

you to deny." Xander pulled out his

plan to drug him, strip him of everything, and ensure

eyes glued

yourself now?" Xander asked,

Isabel.

to form in Isabel's

was 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 with plans of

things easier; I can

that threatened to overtake her, and met Xander's gaze

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running into you 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

nor

I made a vow. I would never take advantage of you, would I allow myself to develop feelings. So forget about what happened tonight. Once I help your brother recover, I'll file for divorce

felt confident she was nailing her performance, even surprising herself

maintain her facade of sadness as she prepared

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