The Cold Surgeon's Contract Bride novel Chapter 747

I froze. That question was completely out of left field and had absolutely nothing to do with what we were just talking about.

Why was he asking about that all of a sudden?

Still, I nodded. "Yeah. I had never dated anyone or lived with a partner before. I stayed at home right up until I got married."

In reality, for the first half of my life, the only man I had ever loved was Ferris.

Long before we tied the knot, I had already been completely devoted to him.

"During your seventeen years with the Hayes family, were they good to you?" he abruptly fired off another question.

This time, a major red flag went up.

How did he know I lived there for exactly seventeen years?

And why was he asking how they treated me?

I stared at him in shock, my lips parting, but I couldn't bring myself to voice the suspicion gnawing at my gut.

He caught my gaze in the rearview mirror, his eyes perfectly clear. "Sorry, Selena, I didn't mean to pry into your personal life. But I accidentally saw your file. It said you were adopted by the Hayes family, that your original last name wasn't Hayes."

So he did know my background.

No wonder he was asking. But why? None of this seemed to have anything to do with him.

A wave of intrusion washed over me. It wasn't overwhelming, but it was enough to make my skin crawl with discomfort.

Having forgotten my tumbler, I reached down, opened the car's mini-fridge, and pulled out a room-temperature bottle of water. I unscrewed the cap and took a large gulp. "Yes, I was adopted. I lived there for seventeen years, and they treated me very well."