After a brief silence, Isabella spoke, “Mom, even though I’ve never been in a relationship before, I know when a man treats a woman well, there’s always a purpose.

“From the very beginning, Austin treated me as his fiancée, so his kindness was intentional from the start.”

They just had not read into it.

“As for the previous private chefs…”

Isabella trailed off. The chefs she had hired before were nothing like Austin. They were older, married, and had families of their own. Naturally, they wo