Declan pondered for a moment.

Before he could answer, Glenna sneered and said, “Mr. King, you make the act of sleeping with someone sound so refreshing and refined.”

Declan furrowed his eyebrows ever so slightly. “That’s not what I mean.”

Glenna asked, “What do you mean then? You don’t love me, yet you want to take care of me as my boyfriend. What else are you trying to say if not this?”

She mocked herself by saying, “Should I feel honored that I’m capable of charming Mr. King with my appea