Chapter 21

'No. She hurriedly stepped back, creating some distance between them, while firmly pushing against his chest and saying, "No." David was trying to coerce her into getting married, even though for a little while he had almost succeeded in seducing her with his proposition and the embarrassing longing to feel his mouth on hers and to experience again the heat of his kiss. Was her sanity in danger?

David shrugged his large shoulders and muttered, "Pity." "I fear that your father will be more disappointed than Bryan will be," you said about the two elderly men.

In an instant of piercing insight, Anna was able to see everything. "Oh my God, you're right!" I said, my chocolate eyes glaring aggressively into his face as I did so. "I thought your grandfather was such a sweet old man, and yet you must have decided between you to ruin my father simply to get the house in Jeju Island—or at least make sure your child did." She accused him angrily, "I can easily believe that you