" Hmm, I don't know what to say." Daniel stood there, flabbergasted and stupefied by the grand gesture. They looked at him with expectancy, probably thinking he would jump at the proposal and they could be one big happy family, but that wasn't on Daniel's agenda.
Oh, poor Xylander. This was everything he had been dreading, and the worst had happened. What if, after rejecting him, they ganged up and threw him out of the house? What would he do then? The house he had in Paris would be gone, taken away from him immediately.
"That was unexpected," Daniel sniffled, pretending to be in tears. He had done this countlessly back home when trying to gain his father's favour, which most of the time backfired tenfold.
