Hadrian quickly pieced it together. Seeing his wife’s silent confirmation, he turned the light back on and sat up, studying her face.

He asked somewhat disbelievingly, “Isa likes Austin? She told you this? So the girl does like men. I’d begun to wonder if she was incapable of love.”

Though surprised, he lacked his wife’s anxiety. If anything, he felt relieved.

His daughter was normal after all.

He had secretly worried she might never love anyone, or that her orientation might diverge from tr