The fact that her father looked down on the man made the game all the more worth it, and the fact that he had nothing and no one backing him made it that much safer for her.
‘Young heiress falls for hapless commoner’ was not an unknown story, but she would be damned before she let it become hers, before she let her father use such a slur against her.
Then, she had started to tease Tyler Varsen, just small things, light things that made most other men drool before her, but instead made the man all but cringe.
That had stirred something up, deep within. Something she had never recognized in herself.
The more she interacted with him, the more her fingers tingled in his presence, the more her feet felt cold.
His voice grew more and more pleasing to her ear, and his eyes filled her mind wh
