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I managed to avoid Dad that night. He knocked on my bedroom door, but I told him to go away. The following morning, he gave me a sheepish smile when I emerged for breakfast.
"You all right?" he asked, peering into my face with concern.
"What do you think?"
"I think you had a narrow escape from that Kavanagh."
"Stop it! Just stop it, Dad. Ash isn't his father or his mother. Do not blame him for the problems you had with his parents. You had no right to barge into the restaurant like that. You embarrassed him and me, you ruined his business deal. You ruined everything!"
He held up his hands. "Calm down."
"I will not calm down! Ash didn't deserve that. He's a great guy."
"Yeah? Then why was he paying you to sleep with him?"
"He wasn't! He paid me to act as his fiancée, nothing els
