Caught Yet Again

As she sits there brooding over the conclusion she has come up with, Mathew gives her a deep stare, then shakes his head.

"Your thoughts are misleading you," he says quietly, wondering what on earth he has done to her that makes her always inclined to think negatively of him.

"What thoughts?" she says, a scowl on her face.

"First of all," he responds. "Let me tell you the definition of a trophy. A Trophy is described as something gained or given in victory or conquest especially when preserved or mounted as a memorial. Or young, attractive woman who is the girlfriend of a rich and successful older person and who acts as a symbol of the person's social position, I don't know which of those two descriptions you place yourself under. Though I should think that if you go ahead and marry Marcus, you will very well fall under the second description..."

What causes Emily to widen her eyes is not the deliberate reminder that the Alpha is too old for her, it is the fact that he has read her tho