Shane's perfect-sculptured face was tense. “I did not send you home.”

“Hmm?” Natalie blinked her eyes in a daze. “You didn't send me home?”

Shane nodded in response.

Natalie's brows creased. “How could it not be you? You were the one at the bar just now.”

“You've mistaken Stanley for me!” Shane looked right into her eyes.

The woman shook her head. “That's impossible. Even if I had too much to drink, I wouldn't have mistaken Stanley for you.”

“You couldn't have been mistaken, but what if Stanley's hypnotized you?” Shane had his hands in his pockets and said with a frosty tone.

“Wh- what do you mean?” Natalie set her back straight. She had a hunch that what he was about to say would greatly challenge her beliefs and understanding.

The man looked straight into her eyes and parted his lips, “You've probably been hypnotized by Stanley back in the bar into thinking that he was me. I guess he was trying to catch you off guard and take you away.”

stiff smile. “That's impossible. He doesn't even know hypnosis. I

the woman was still siding Stanley. “It seems like you've never truly known this man. Otherwise, why would you have no idea that he knows hypnosis? As

eyes widened in

of him after he tried to kiss you back on the ship last time. He knows that you're in love

sheets and jumped off the bed

mean, he did scare me when he kissed me last

Stanley be

so explicitly clear to you, and yet you refuse to believe me. Fine, then let me show you what

been asking Silas to investigate Stanley's past, in hopes of

make much progress. Now that the devil has shown his cloven hooves, I can finally show her

Shane! Let me go! You're hurting me!” Natalie resisted the man, reluctant to trail

she had seen it, she wouldn't be able to see eye to

bit down on her lip at the thought and tried to shrug off Shane's

she noticed the wound on his left arm,

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