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388 Denter County
Vivian had just taken a sip of her drink. She choked on it so hard that she nearly sprayed it across the table."Marriage?" she spluttered, coughing into her napkin. "Girlfriend? Mother Agnes, Tyler isn't my boyfriend! This is just a formal date to pay him back for the hospital treatment!"Agnes furrowed her brows."Oh, forgive me. It's just that he never went out with anyone before. He always used to say when he was a child that he'd fall in love and marry the first girl he takes on a date."Tyler finally looked up from his burger. "It's too early. We're working on it."Vivian's face turned as red as a tomato. "Tyler! You're embarrassing me!"Mother Agnes laughed until her eyes watered. She patted him on the head as if he were still five years old, then picked up her empty paper bag."Take care of him, dear," she whispered to Vivian. "He hasn't had anyone to look after him for many years."Then the old warden shuffled away between the tables and disappeared into the crowd.Vivian sat
387 Burgers
Ivy Solaris pushed her way through the ballroom with her sunglasses on and her hood up. It was a poor disguise for the most famous face in the country, but she didn't care.She had sung tonight for one man in this ballroom, and the fans had swept her away before she could even speak to him. Where had Tyler gone?She went to Don Camilla's table first. The heap of food was still there, half eaten, with a pile of fried chicken bones on one plate. But the chair was empty."Excuse me," she asked a waiter. "Have you seen Tyler Grant? Tall, plain suit, eats like a starving wolf?"The waiter stared at her, starstruck, and shook his head.The news of Tyler fighting a captain of the royal guard had traveled. Was he okay?Ivy bit her lip and hurried on. At the stage tables, Julian Ashford's chair still lay on its back where he had stormed off. On the duel floor, waiters were sweeping up shattered glass around the two halves of a sword.Tyler Grant had left a trail of chaos across the whole ballr
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
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