The Billionaire’s Secret Quartet (Thalassa and Elowen)

Hertha blinked innocently, puzzled at the accusation of being naive.

Kimberly pressed on, "Do you really think it's just by chance he moved next door? Come on!"

"It's just a coincidence," Hertha insisted.

"Only you would believe that. In a place as big as Starhaven, with its myriad neighborhoods, he ends up right next to you? Use your head!"

It was as if a lightbulb went off in Hertha's head, a moment of sudden clarity.

hers, and not just the same area but the same building, the

But he knew. She'd actually believed in mere happenstance, but her mother's words sparked a realization: Alaric's

Mom, that's just speculation. What if it's not

why I'm testing him,"

his passport and marry me. That's not testing; that's handing me over on a silver platter," Hertha was

not naive? Marriage isn't just about having a passport in hand. When I told him to get his passport,

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be with you. If he brings that passport, it shows he's determined to marry you. If not, and he comes up

was duly impressed, "You're right; experience does come

already at odds with his family. Going back to discuss the passport, even if he gets it, he might never be welcome in the Falconer

because of his