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Dalton slid the plate of steak he had sliced up over to Wynter. “She

wanted to marry into the Yarwood family, but I turned her down.”

Wynter stared at him speechlessly.

“I figured I should tell you myself before you get the wrong idea,” he@@novelbin@@

explained, though exasperation filled his sparkling eyes. “You’re

unnervingly fl*ppant for someone I’m rumored to be dating.”

Wynter gave the steak a cursory look before saying, “I have yet to hear

about your valiant effort of turning down a young woman’s