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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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Xander gently grasped her chin, lifting her face

she looked

is happening? Why does it seem

me, what's your real purpose for

words sent a

So I've been discovered!

Xander, her hesitation

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"I know you came

here for me."

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Isabel was taken aback, her mind struggling to follow

Xander teased, a

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

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

gaze eventually falling to the shirt he was holding. She

that much?" Xander chuckled, a smug

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 -don't like you!

clothes? Just holding

Isabel found herself

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

wealth and intend to become the mistress of this house. Beyond that, I plan to drug him, strip him

in disbelief, her eyes glued to Xander's phone, unable to

say for yourself now?" Xander asked, a mischievous smirk on

Isabel.

to form in Isabel's

was no doubt; that recording

she had ulterior motives-that she had entered his room under the cover of night with

makes things easier; I can just play

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

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epitome of a hero-any woman would find you appealing. I'm no different. Plus, after being hurt by a jerk, running into you at that moment made me

nor

of our wedding. 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

confident she was nailing her performance, even surprising herself with how convincing

needed to maintain her facade of sadness as she

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