Sophia was shocked.

She anxiously followed up with questions, “Kevin knows you’re a woman? How did he find out?”

It was the first time anybody ever doubted that her daughter was not a man.

Once the shock subsided, Sophia was hit with a wave of a pleasant surprise.

For Kevin to suspect her daughter’s gender, it could only mean that Kevin believed Hayden was a woman. It was probably why Kevin was wooing Hayden now.

In that case, Sophia’s daughter had a chance to marry into the York family so long as Kevin had no interest in the wife candidate Old Mrs. York picked for him.

Sophia was on a roller coaster of emotions.

Getting a headache, Hayden replied, “I don’t know what started the suspicion, but I’m certain that I gave away nothing.”

The longest time she ever spent with Kevin was over the weekend.

Oftentimes, it was only an occasional encounter that was kept brief.

They had not hung out a lot.

Other people who had been in Hayden’s company daily never suspected she w