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?

lived before moving, she could chalk it up to coincidence. But he knew. She'd actually believed in mere happenstance, but her mother's words sparked a realization: Alaric's

not like that?" Hertha still harbored doubts

I'm testing him,"

marry me. That's not testing; that's handing me over

having a passport in

break up

brings that passport, it shows he's determined to

impressed, "You're right; experience

the passport, even if he gets it, he might never be welcome in the Falconer household again. He could lose his standing," Hertha raised

for him because of his