Your name really is Sadie Hawkins?"Sadie looked at Kevin with puzzled eyes and nodded."Is there anything wrong with that?"Kevin laughed."No. It's a pretty name. I've just heard it before."Sadie wasn't at all sure that Kevin Johnson wasn't making fun of her, but even if he was she didn't care. He had saved her from a life of squalor. He could ask pointless questions all night long.Sadie looked at her large bowl of Irish stew like a mountain lion looked at a deer, but she resisted the temptation to eat quickly. She didn't want to leave the impression that she was an uncultured waif. She wanted to impress this kind, handsome man, not turn him off."Kevin?""Yes?""Why did you help me? You don't even know me."Kevin frowned and looked away before returning to his dinner companion."I helped you because I couldn't bear to see someone like you caught up in that life. Even if you had managed to pay off your debt, you'd have still been a damaged woman – a damaged woman with no prospects. I couldn't let that happen."Sadie smiled and gazed at a man who was as close to a Prince Charming as she would ever find in this or any town.
