"He wants me to marry him," Bella looks anywhere but at Mathew's face. Now that she has said this out loud to another person, Bella is, once again, struck by the absurdity of it all.
If the news has made him feel anything, Mathew does not show it. His handsome face remains blank as he stares at her, and it is a long moment before he looks away from her face, and speaks.
"This is not right. I am sure you have worked that out for yourself."
Yes, she thought the Alpha was nuts upstairs to talk about marrying her so soon after getting to meet her.
But she wants to know his version of why it isn't right.
"Why do you think that?" she asks.
"To start with, he is too old for you. He is trying to keep you under his control...I don't know, a hundred reasons, all of them negative."
"Or maybe
