"She high-tailed it out the door the moment I gave her the giveaway." He wasn't keen on it, and there was a small part of him that actually questioned what might go on when he didn't have his iron walls around her. It was tricky territory with any man with a daughter. He could have shipped her off to boarding school plenty of times, but idealistically he actually wanted her around at first if just to manipulate her.

"Don't you look stunning," he insisted with a pleased grin on his face.