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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,

she lived before moving, she could chalk it up to coincidence. But he knew. She'd actually believed in mere happenstance, but her mother's words sparked a realization: Alaric's affection for her was indeed

not like that?" Hertha still harbored doubts

testing

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

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shows he's determined to marry you. If not, and he comes up

"You're right; experience

discuss the passport, even if he gets it, he might never be welcome in the Falconer household again. He could lose his

you fall for him because of