DAKOTA She wouldn"t let him get to her, not even if she could feel him watching her every move. There was an odd tension in the air that she wasn"t convinced was to do with anything she"d said the night before. Quite the contrary, this was something deeper than that. And she had no idea why he was being so stubborn against the truth. There had to be a reason. And maybe with some gentle encouragement, he"d tell her. MatchMater had been at it again this morning, asking her to rate the date. The urge to hit the button and announce she"d found her mate had been there. Once again, she"d ignored it. Her gaze strayed to the man standing in the middle of her kitchen. Maybe she shouldn"t be ignoring it after all. There must have been a reason he decided to help her last night. And a reason he w

