CHAPTER TWENTY
KIERAN'S POV
That last thought caught me off guard, stopping my usual patterns of thinking in their tracks. When had what someone else wanted started to matter to me? When had I begun measuring my decisions against how they'd affect her instead of just what served my purposes?
I closed the security feed, suddenly uncomfortable with watching her without her knowledge. She deserved privacy even if she didn't know I'd already discovered her secret, even if I was still deciding what to do with the information I'd gathered.
The smart move would be to confront her, to lay out everything I knew and demand the full truth. Force her to explain why her family had sent me the wrong bride, what they were hiding, what she was so afraid of that she'd rather live a lie than trust me w
