After being slapped twice, Alex Rockefeller was also feeling a little angry. “Isn’t that enough? I could still bear you calling me a beast, but you said I was embarrassing you. That really is nonsense. How did I shame you? I was rescuing you. If I didn’t do it, you’d end up in an even more dire situation.”

Phoebe Larsen stared at Alex fiercely, almost as if he had killed her father. “Are you a man?” she asked.

“Of course, I am,” Alex answered.

“In that case, am I even lesser than a normal wom