“Well… to begin with… his mother passed away so long ago yet his father never sought to enter into another Marriage Contract. He has been living alone for over a decade, and now it is just the two of them with no female influence in the family at all. I find that strange, don’t you? The Committee would like us all to be happily connected to a well matched mate,” Gloriana explained. “There is no such hard and fast rule or mandate regarding what kind of people we should and should not associate with” I pointed out the obvious to her. “There should be,” she bit out under her breath “No good can come from a single father. It takes a woman’s touch to guide a man onto the correct path in life. I firmly believe that and so should you” she was looking at me like I had two heads. I shrugged my s