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

looked

happening? Why does it

me, what's your real purpose for being

a chill through

So I've been discovered!

her hesitation appeared

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"I know you came

here for me."

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taken aback, her mind struggling to

teased, a

each

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

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

like me that much?" Xander chuckled, a smug

been careful, he might have swept her up and taken her to bed, acting on their unspoken desires right then and there. "Wait,

you casually decided to rummage through my clothes? Just holding my shir! playing with it like that?" Xander interrupted

found

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

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

jaw dropped in disbelief, her eyes glued to Xander's phone,

Xander asked, a mischievous smirk

Isabel.

began to form in

was no doubt; that recording was

as well thank her for convincing Xander that she had ulterior motives-that she had entered his room under the cover of night with plans of

actually makes things easier; I

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

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by a jerk, running into you at that moment made me well, 1 just-ahem-lost my composure." As she spoke, a

nor

act But I understand we come from different backgrounds, and on the day 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 brother recover, I'll file for divorce and vanish from

nailing her performance, even

she just needed to maintain her facade of sadness as she prepared to leave the

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