"Nothing like that. We love each other. It happens, Alec. People fall in love, which is a gift from God if you were to ask me," she said as she raised her brows. "Why is that such a hard thing to believe? And besides, you're asking me to trust in these... strangers you wrote down. I don't know them from the next person. What if one of them tried to take advantage of me?" She lifted her palms. "I can assure you, I have it handled." She wondered if her father loved her mother.