The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Hertha blinked innocently, puzzled at the accusation of being naive.

Kimberly pressed on, "Do you really think it's just by chance he moved next door? Come on!"

"It's just a coincidence," Hertha insisted.

"Only you would believe that. In a place as big as Starhaven, with its myriad neighborhoods, he ends up right next to you? Use your head!"

It was as if a lightbulb went off in Hertha's head, a moment of sudden clarity.

Right, of all the neighborhoods in Starhaven, why did Alaric Falconer choose hers, and not just the same area but the same building, the same floor?

chalk it up to coincidence. But he knew. She'd actually believed in mere happenstance, but her mother's words sparked a

if it's not like that?" Hertha still harbored doubts about

testing him," Kimberly

and marry me. That's not testing; that's handing me over on a silver platter," Hertha was

having a passport in hand. When I told him to get his passport, I was gauging his

you break up with

that passport, it shows he's determined to marry you. If not, and he comes up with excuses, then he's not ready. Either way,

was duly impressed, "You're right; experience does come

if he gets it, he might never be welcome in the Falconer household again. He could lose his

you fall for him because of his status?" Kimberly