Thaddeus' gaze was piercing as he looked over toward her, but her own lips curled into a smile as she tilted her head, watching him in return. Wherever this conversation was headed excited June — she enjoyed a good conversation that challenged her to think, even if most of the time people thought her to be mean or odd because of it. If she didn’t keep her mind active then she feared she’d lose who she was, becoming boring. A shell of who she was. Just another boring debutante without any life goals outside of being a wife and a mother.

She nodded. Wanting to see a waterfall seemed simple, but she hadn’t gotten the chance to travel much outside of where her father took them. “Don’t you like being just a little bit dangerous, Mr. Flint?” Juniper hummed quietly as she lifted her gaze toward him, the grip of her hand tightening around him just a bit. “Knowing that when people look at you, they don’t know what you’re fully capable of?” Being dangerous meant being protected — she didn’t need anyone in her life to do that for her. Her eyes fixated on his lips, watching them curl into something akin to amusement.

The gaze she felt from Thaddeus gave June pause, like she’d said too much and crossed a line, like he saw straight through her. Of course she didn’t want a marriage of convenience. She wanted to like her husband at minimum, but she also wasn’t daft enough to think that as the eldest, her father wouldn’t use her as a bartering chip for something he wanted. He murmured like he didn’t like her answer, but she was speaking the truth. June pursed her lips together in thought. “What is it that you’re looking for, Mr. Flint? To have all your desires fulfilled with someone you’re in love with?” She was curious now, having never considered what he might be looking for in a wife. Thaddeus seemed like someone who would consider his wife as an equal partner, and not someone just fulfilling a contract of giving him an heir. "Above all else, I want to be happy. Live a life where I don't feel like I am shackled down."

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