“Until yesterday, my father hadn’t seen me in two years, and before that he rarely spoke to me!” That answer so took Royce by surprise that he stared at her. “Why not?” “I—I displeased him,” she admitted. “I can understand why,” he said bluntly, thinking her to be the most unbiddable female he’d ever had the misfortune to encounter. She also, he noticed with a start, had the softest, most inviting mouth he’d ever seen and, very possibly, the bluest eyes.
