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407 The Catch
"Wow, this is a nice picnic place," Tyler said, looking around the garden appreciatively. "But where's the aquifer?"Annika didn't answer him at once. She was turning slowly on the spot, her eyes shining with excitement.She had seen this place many times without ever setting foot in it. A painting of this very pond hung in her grandfather's study, beside an old map of Prince's Cove.Butch Salvatore, the first ancestor, had taught the first Gilded Man, and the Salvatores had guarded that map for centuries. Every generation had studied it, and nobody had ever found the pond."It's exactly like the paintings," she breathed. "The marble, the flowers, the fireflies... Grandpa always said the painter must have made it all up.""So is it a well or not?" Tyler asked patiently."In the map, the aquifer is this pond itself," Annika explained, pointing at the water. "At its bottom is a veil between the real world and the mystical world. You have to enter the water and activate it.""Fine."With
406 Prince's Cove
Tyler's first cultivation lesson began at a rusted iron gate just before dawn, when Annika Salvatore parked her Mercedes in front of it.A faded board hung on the bars. PRINCE'S COVE. HISTORIC RUINS. PROTECTED BY THE SAPPHIRE CULTURAL DEPARTMENT. NO ENTRY.The heiress stepped out and stopped at the chained gate with her arms folded."We'll have to wait for fifteen minnutes," she said primly. "The curator will be here soon to give us a pass."Tyler chuckled, and walked past her. He took hold of the padlock and gave it a casual pull.The lock snapped off in his hand, and the gate screeched open."Heyr!" Annika exclaimed in horror. "This is a protected site! You can't just break in!""I just did," he replied, and walked in with his hands in his pockets. "Sue me."Annika glanced up and down the empty road, mortified. She hurried after him, muttering furiously.Beyond the gate lay what was left of a palace. It was a field of broken marble now. Columns lay on their sides in the weeds, and h
405 Hugs and Kisses
Flames from the burning bunker lit the dunes orange as Tyler Grant led the two sisters across the sand.Annika Salvatore was standing on top of the rock where he had left her. She held her phone in one hand, and she was staring at the fire behind them in disbelief."You're alive," she exclaimed. "All three of you. That whole place is burning to the ground!""The host had a dragon," Tyler replied. "It didn't like him very much."Annika eyed him suspiciously and decided not to ask whether it was a metaphor.Camilla climbed up onto the rock and gave the heiress a long, curious look."My message went to your phone," the Don said. "You're the one who sent Tyler in after us. I owe you for that."Ivy immediately scrambled up beside her sister, her eyes wide with gratitude."So you're the reason he came for us? Thank you!" she exclaimed, and frowned at the heiress in confusion.Camilla had the same question. "What is a Salvatore girl doing out here in the desert, next to a gang bunker?" she a
404 Dragonfire
Tyler Grant set down the glass he had been polishing and hopped over the bar.He held out both hands."Let's go, girls. I don't like the ambience of this party hall."They giggled. Camilla took one and Ivy took the other, and he led them across the wet throne room toward the shattered front door.Water splashed under their shoes. Neither sister looked at the walls painted in red.Dorian Vex stared after them. His men were dead or gone, his clothes were in ribbons and his throne room was a graveyard. But the sight of their backs brought the blood rushing back into his face."Stop right there!" he roared. "Do you think you can just walk out of here?"Tyler kept walking."I own this city!" Vex screamed after them. "I own everything! The clubs, the warehouses, the docks, the police! Wherever you run, I will find you, and I will kill you with my own hands!"Tyler stopped. Without letting go of the girls, he glanced at Camilla."Is it done?" he asked.Camilla pulled her phone from her jacke
403 Cocktails
Six hundred armed fighters ringed the throne room. Behind the bar, Tyler Grant moved like he had worked there for years.He grabbed a silver shaker from the rack and filled it with ice. He pulled bottles off the shelf without even reading the labels and squeezed an orange in his bare hand straight over the shaker.He spun it over the back of his hand, caught it behind his back and shook it hard above his shoulder. The ice rattled like dice in a cup.Ivy's mouth fell open."Since when can you do that?" she asked in amazement."I'm a man of many talents," Tyler replied.He poured two glasses in one smooth stream, without spilling a single drop. He dropped a cherry into each, slid a slice of orange onto each rim and pushed them across the counter to the sisters."Ladies," he said. "Enjoy."Camilla picked up her glass first and took a sip. Her eyebrows shot up in surprise."That's... really good," the female Don admitted. "Better than any bar in my district."Ivy tasted hers and closed he
402 Wrappers
Tyler Grant ignored Dorian Vex's threat completely. Instead, he took some comfort that both sisters were still clinging to his arms. The last time this happened, they were little kids."Camilla," he said. "What was he planning to do with you two?"Camilla's face hardened at the memory."He told his men to strip us," she said flatly. "Every last thread, in front of all of them. Then he was going to violate us and put a bullet in each of our heads, so he could finally sleep in peace."Ivy shuddered and pressed closer to Tyler's side. "He really said it."Dorian Vex did not even blink. He spread his arms on the steps of his throne and grinned shamelessly."And I would have enjoyed every second of it," he declared. "So what? What are you going to do about it, pickpocket? The moment your strength falters, I will fulfill my wish all over them!"Tyler's eyes turned ice-cold. Nobody spoke about his girls from St. Brigid's like that and kept the clothes on his back.He stepped away from Ivy an
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