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?

moving, she could chalk it up to coincidence. But he knew. She'd actually believed in mere happenstance,

What if it's not like that?" Hertha still

why I'm testing

That's not testing; that's handing me over on

naive? Marriage isn't just about having a passport in hand. When I told him to get his passport,

you break up

to be with you. If he brings that passport, it shows he's determined to marry

right;

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

fall for him because of