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The last thing Adaria needed was another entitled man thinking he could tell her what to do. She’d gotten a taste of that with Hector, and her hatred for the man grew stronger with every passing minute. But when Lord Travis joined the fray, she just about lost her mind.
The old man - and she chose to call him old for that was exactly what he was - decided to call at Castle Cerberus the very next day after the ball, and he brought her such a large bouquet of lillies that it was impossible to see him from across. While she received the gift courteously, he chose to interpret her polite smile as a sign of genuine interest and desire.
“I handpicked them myself,” he boasted, thumping his chest as though he’d slain a dragon in her name. “I couldn’t possibly guess what the lady likes, so
