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"It couldn't be me," says Tess. "Frankly I agree. There's no way you could have been his daughter. Too stiff. Too innocent to be his offspring," mocks Lyons.
Lyons Ducane, a...
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The books could be read separately. This book is the last of the heiress series.
Cast:
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(Lyons: Chace Crawford)
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(Theresa Matthews: Karen Gillan)
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(Connor Donnelly: Marco James)
----------------------------------------------------------- "It couldn't be me," says Tess.
"Frankly, I agree. There's no way you could be his daughter. Too stiff. Too innocent to be his offspring," mocks Lyon.
Theresa Matthews, a priest's daughter. The priest found her in one cold winter night. Abandoned in local cemetery. The old priest and his wife has no child. So God sent her to be their daughter. They adopted the poor little girl.
"How old were you when they found you?" asks Lyon while looking around.
Shabby old furnitures. Old grandfather clock in a corner of the room. Uncomfortable brown leather couch. Some of the leather has cracked.
"I...err...maybe four to five years old."
Lyon stares her.
And she stares back to him with steady unblinking eyes. A calm customer. Always cool like cucumber. This girl is always calm even when she's still a little girl.
