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386 Six Wings
Over a hundred royal guards charged across the ballroom with their swords drawn.The suitors cheered as if they were watching a gladiator battle."That's it! Cut the bastard down!""Serves him right for disrespecting the Indigo Captain! Let's see him stop a hundred swords with a fork!""Please!" Vivian screamed from her table at Alaric. "Stop them! He didn't mean to offend anyone!"Tyler saved her hospital's reputation, the mayor's son, and simply asked her out on a date. He didn't deserve to be cut down for claiming what she promised him.Vivian could never forgive herself if something happened to him.Tyler wasn't the least bit concerned. He stood exactly where he was. He looked at the wall of steel coming toward him with mild boredom and rolled his right shoulder.The ruined sleeve, already split to the elbow, tore the rest of the way and fell away from his upper arm."ENOUGH!"Prince Alaric's voice thundered through the ballroom like a cannon blast. He was a gracious and gentle ma
385 The Indigo Captain
Dexter's sword came down at Tyler's shoulder with enough force to split a man in half."Tyler!" Vivian screamed from the Prince's table. "Pick up the sword!"Tyler had tossed his own blade away. It had clattered across the marble floor and slid under a table."Is he insane?" one of the suitors exclaimed. "He threw away his sword! Does he have a death wish?"In a bizarre decision, he reached behind him and picked up a silver fork from the nearest place setting.Clang! The Indigo Captain's blade stopped dead against the fork, a foot short of Tyler's shoulder.The entire ballroom gasped in disbelief. Did that man just block Dexter Sentinel with a fork?"He is mocking the Indigo Captain!" another hollered. "Captain, cut him down! Teach the homeless brat some manners!"Dexter pulled his blade back and stared at the fork in confusion. His strike had carried enough strength to cleave through a steel helmet. Yet this young man had stopped it with a piece of cutlery, and his feet had not moved
384 Dissatisfied Customer
"Miss Anderson, my father owns nine hotels along the coast. Say the word tonight and every one of them is signed over to you on the wedding day!""Nine hotels? That's all? My family holds the container terminal and half the cranes on the west dock, Miss Anderson. We make eighty million a year, and you would never work another day in your life.""Oh, come on. The lady is a surgeon, you fool. Don't talk to her about working. She's a prince's goddaughter.""I keep three racehorses in a ranch at Chantilly and an estate house in Monaco with the sea under the balcony. Marry me and you need never touch a patient again."Vivian Anderson sat at her godfather's table with her hands in her lap, and eleven men stood over her chair shouting their money into her face.They had come politely at the start. Now their claims had turned into a shouting match.A banker's son wouldn't leave her side."You still haven't given me an answer, Miss Anderson.""I gave you one an hour ago. I said no."Vivian's e
383 Four Questions
Julian Ashford went down on one knee on the stage of the Grand Meridian and held up a ring.The scream that came out of that ballroom put two waiters against the wall."Ivy Solaris. In front of this whole city. Will you marry me?"Phones went up in every hand in the room. A photographer on the balcony climbed onto a chair."SAY YES! SAY YES! SAY YES!"Ivy stood in the spotlight holding a microphone she hadn't asked for. She understood exactly what had been done to her. He hadn't asked in a restaurant. He'd asked where refusing him would be the only story in the country by morning."Julian. Can we talk about this somewhere private?"Ashford smiled up at her and made sure the room heard him."Sweetheart, I've been very patient with you. Say it.""Can I say something?"The voice came from the floor. It wasn't loud. The people in front of it stepped aside anyway, then the ones behind them, until a lane ran through the middle of the ballroom.Tyler walked up it holding a bread roll.Ashfor
382 Dating Game
Camilla was gone before Tyler reached the bottom of the stairs.Bruno waited at the ballroom doors with a phone against his ear and gave him the rest. Four vans, one for each warehouse on the east docks. Two hours. The Don had walked out of her own party without saying goodbye to a single guest in it."The boss said the kitchen is yours whenever you want it."Tyler went looking for food and found Annika Salvatore instead.Six men ringed her chair now, and the crowd behind them had packed in so tight she couldn't have risen if she tried.One had his hand flat on her shoulder. Another crouched down until his face was level with hers, and he had been at it a long time."Miss Salvatore, one dance. I've asked you four times tonight.""Then you have my answer.""Your grandfather already said yes on my behalf."Annika wore a smile that had stopped meaning anything an hour ago. Her jaw ached from holding it."Give me a chance too."Tyler came through the six of them with his elbows. Nobody sto
381 Bad Weather
Tyler stood up and walked around the table to Camilla's chair. "I've heard the problem. Do you want me to solve it?" Camilla raised her eyes to him with the whiskey glass still in her hand, and for a second she wanted to laugh. "My dearest. I've seen you fight. I watched you throw a car door through two trucks and fifty men, and I still don't know what you are." "But?" "But it isn't a fighting problem." Camilla set the glass down. "Mayor Rourke has called me twice this week. Six of the men who fund my gang came to my office on Thursday. They all said the same sentence." "And what is that?" "End the war. They own hotels and shipping lines in this city. My war is costing them money, and they don't care which of us dies as long as somebody stops." "So?" "So if Dorian Vex proposes in front of eight hundred witnesses and I spit in his face, I lose all six of them in a night. Then I'm a woman with three hundred men, no money, and an army at the door." Bruno kept his eyes on the fl
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