Page 13 of A Secret Promise

His daughter actually giggled, and this, too, was something he hadn't heard for a long, long time.

It was, simply put, another miracle.

"What exactly did shesay?"

"She suggested we give ourselves time to think."

Riley smirked. "And?"

He realized where this was leading, and his daughter started to snicker when he shook his head. "You really want me to say it?"

"Yes. I really do."

"She also said we should pray for it."

His daughter was already giggling before he had even finished speaking.

"I knew it!" Riley beamed at him. "She's just so adorablynice,Dad. I don't think I've ever met anyone like her. She doesn't seem to care about what other people think. She could just go on and on talking about God and stuff."

Yes, Rule thought. Vixen was exactly the way his daughter described her, but it didn't just make her adorable or nice. Instead, it made herincredible,in every way a woman could be.

"Do youreallylike her, Dad?"

"I do."

"And Vixen? Did she say she likes you back?"

"She says it's too soon to tell."

Riley sighed. "That's such a Vixen thing to say."

"You sound like you know her pretty well."

"I know I've only met her once, but she's just that kind of person, you know? She doesn't have a single fake bone in her body."

Yes,Rule thought again. Vixen would never be the type to lie, and that was why...he was starting to think he had been right in the first place. Vixen was someone a man like him didn't deserve—-

"Dad?" Riley was gnawing on her lip with an uneasy expression.

"What is it?"

"Do you think you really have a shot with her?"

"You don't think I do?"

"It's just that..."

Rule frowned at the way his daughter's shoulders slumped. "What are you worried about?"

"She'snice—-"

"You've already said that several times."

"—-while we're dysfunctional."

Rule finally understood what his daughter was leading to.

"And we're not...close to God."

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