“Yes. They just need to sign. And then, we can take that vacation,” Edward remarked excitedly.
“Ah! The vacation where I hide in the belly of the boat or the one where I go first and hide on the island until your family leaves?” she asked coyly.
“No!” Edward declared boldly. “The one where we both get on a plane and go to Makrysha.”
“What?!” she called out, sitting up, her large breasts jiggling.
Edward stiffened but kept he his focus on her face, throwing his arm casually behind his head, her eyes flicked to his taut abs, her lower lip trembled, then her eyes snapped back to his.
Edward’s heart swelled with a pride only a man in bed with a beautiful woman could.
“What?” he asked innocently, replying to her surprised retort.
“I’ve been trying to get you to Makrysha for years! And suddenly you bring it up by yourself?” she tossed lightly at him, shaking her head again, her long curls dancing over her shoulders.
“Is this…that…mid-life crisis thing I’ve heard about?” she continued slyly.
Edward laughed again.
Another reason this particular mistress had outlasted any other – she made him laugh. Genuinely, from his heart.
When he had been younger, he had thought that maybe he loved her.
But after a few years, of her, of others, he had come to accept that love was a stretch at best.
The only thing Edward Kramer knew he loved was power. His family’s power. He loved that. And even more, he loved being the one to control that power, to grow it, to move it.
And now, he was on track to move it overseas to a whole new level.
He was on a high from that.
As for this woman with the lightly tanned skin and beautiful lips, he liked her.
Almost admired her.
Of that much, he was sure.
With his free hand, he slid his finger down her flat belly, slowly, stopping just before the dark tuft between her shapely hips.
His eyes never left hers.
“Are you trying to call me old?” he murmured.
“No, my love. Just…wizened?” she replied naughtily.
He barked out a laugh.
Then he grinned at her.
“No crisis. Just a gift. For the most beautiful woman in the world, one far too long in coming,” he stated humbly.
Natasha Periladay, Baroness of Osterin Manor, from the European continent, lay back atop Lord Kramer’s chest.
He adjusted his head against his arm.
“Very long,” she breathed.
“My gratitude to you, my love. For putting up with me. For supporting me,” Edward droned hoarsely.
She smiled sweetly.
“If my Lord doesn’t get what he wants, I cannot abide it!” she declared her pupils dilating.
Edward smiled back.
“Again?” he mumbled, his own eyes dancing.
“What? Too much, my Lord?” she whispered, “Shall I get the tea?”
Edward’s arm came down. He drew her to himself. “Tea?” he droned, as her hand moved under the sheet and her lips parted, a gasp escaping as her eyes widened.
Lord Kramer lay the Baroness on her back as his tongue found hers.
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“Tyler! Come in! Come in!” Lincoln called out from behind his office desk.
Tyler strolled into the brightly lit, well-apportioned office of the head mafia in Salvena City.
It was almost midnight, yet the mafia boss looked like his day was just starting. And it probably was.
Tyler smiled.
His first real smile, in front of a real person for that day.
“You have it?” Lincoln shot at him, all business.
“Here,” Tyler replied swiftly, handing his box of activated Junster to the mafia leader.
There were five other men in the room. Each one nodded to Tyler as he sauntered in, three of them leaving as the imposing young man with sleeked back hair and light eyes approached their boss.
“Mr. T.! Been a minute!” the taller of the remaining two men called out cordially.
“Harrison!” Tyler replied happily, “When did you get out?”
“Yesterday,” the man replied with a grin.
“And you didn’t come find me?” Tyler shot back, disappointedly.
“You’re here now, ain’t ya!” Harrison replied, still grinning widely.
Tyler laughed.
“How is Frank?” he asked flippantly.
“He’s still being a good boy. Still keeping his hands to his fucking self. The one you left him, anyway,” Harry droned.
Tyler smiled again, shaking his head.
“Yeah, well, I was in a bad mood that day,” Tyler replied cryptically.
“Uh hun!” Harry murmured, his eyes laughing.
Tyler wiped the smile from his face as he turned to the second man. Lincoln’s number two. Amika.
“Ami,” he said respectfully, placing his right hand over his left breast and bowing lightly.
“You know, I can’t get over how polite you are to Myka when you’re never so sweet to me!” Lincoln called out, sounding offended.
“He knows where loyalties lie,” Amika rumbled, his dark eyes on Tyler, “after all, we’ve known each other longer.”
“But I’ve met him more often,” Lincoln fake complained.
“Yes,” Amika droned dismissively, lifting his large frame from the large sofa only he – ever – occupied.
He put a hand forward, and Tyler shook the man’s hand, bowing lightly again.
Amika was built like a brick house on legs, but the man was a mage. A true-blooded mage. His size was no hindrance to anything that needed doing.
As he shook the older man’s hand, Tyler smiled inwardly at the banter between his oldest supporters even as his blood tingled, as it always did when in Amika’s presence.
But he pressed his lips together, preventing the gasp that wanted to escape as that constant overwhelming feeling swelled in his heart, without any reason, just like with gems, that Amika was something very special, very different.
He always had the feeling that the large forty-something-year-old man could be far, far, significantly, older than he appeared.
The young man turned back to Lincoln.
“How is our young heiress?” Lincoln tossed lazily at his young friend.
Tyler rolled his eyes.
“I might need to go to HR sooner rather than later,” he stated dryly.
Lincoln and Harry laughed.
Amika moved back to his chair, his eyes on Tyler.
The young man kept his focus on his sponsor.
“Here’s the information on the mistresses,” Lincoln stated neutrally, tossing a flat file on his desk, toward Tyler.
The young man picked it up.
Lincoln nodded at Harrison. The man moved to the office door and locked it.
Tyler flipped through the file slowly.
As Tyler went along, he pulled out some papers, placing them on the table. He repeated this process two more times.
Most of the papers from the file ended up on the table.
Five sheets remained in the file.
He handed it back to Lincoln.
“These ones. Get me everything,” he said, almost brashly.
“See?” Lincoln commented lightly, his eyes moving between Harry and Amika, “See how he speaks to me?”
“He is the Master of the Miran Auction house, Boss,” Harry replied placatingly to Lincoln, his gaze on Tyler, whose eyes had gone distant.

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Suddenly, Tyler stood, his clouded expression clearing.He smiled politely at Lincoln.“I should head out. Need to get a few last things,” he commented brightly. “As for those,” he continued, nodding at the file in Lincoln’s hand, “I need your best men on standby. For all of them.”“But let’s have the information first. Have three of your guys ready for me. Ages thirty to thirty-five. Nothing lower, can go slightly higher, but they need to look young enough to pass comfortably,” Tyler rolled off, all business, his hazel eyes steady on Lincoln’s green ones.“So…not Harry here?” Lincoln droned sarcastically.Tyler glanced at Harrison, taking in the tall, boy-next-door type, well-built man who could not be thirty years old yet, then back to Lincoln.He eyed Lincoln, who was thirty-something, ripped, fair-skinned, more than a little handsome gangster, slowly, up and down.Amika shifted in his seat.Harrison burst out laughing.Lincoln’s eyes narrowed.Tyler grinned.“No, Sir,” Tyler repli
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“Yes. They just need to sign. And then, we can take that vacation,” Edward remarked excitedly.“Ah! The vacation where I hide in the belly of the boat or the one where I go first and hide on the island until your family leaves?” she asked coyly.“No!” Edward declared boldly. “The one where we both get on a plane and go to Makrysha.”“What?!” she called out, sitting up, her large breasts jiggling.Edward stiffened but kept he his focus on her face, throwing his arm casually behind his head, her eyes flicked to his taut abs, her lower lip trembled, then her eyes snapped back to his.Edward’s heart swelled with a pride only a man in bed with a beautiful woman could.“What?” he asked innocently, replying to her surprised retort.“I’ve been trying to get you to Makrysha for years! And suddenly you bring it up by yourself?” she tossed lightly at him, shaking her head again, her long curls dancing over her shoulders.“Is this…that…mid-life crisis thing I’ve heard about?” she continued slyly.
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“How long has it been…,” he murmured.“It should be about time…”“But…no…it’s not possible…,” he breathed, talking out loud, but to himself.“What’s not possible?” Vincent echoed cautiously.It was rare for his father to get distracted in front of others, let alone voice any thoughts the Lord had not fully formed in his mind.“Our locations are under some kind of attack. There are too many coincidences for them to be coincidences,” Lord Kramer replied distantly, his voice low, his eyes still far away.“I don’t follow…,” Vincent stated slowly, taking two more steps toward his father.“Of course you don’t!” Edward snapped, his gaze turning and focusing on Vincent.“Where have you been all day? All week? And don’t you dare tell me you’ve been crafting! You don’t craft! You draw, then others do the work, just like –” Edward offloaded on his son, then swiftly cut himself off.Vincent’s face darkened.Edward squared his shoulders, glowering at his son.The younger Kramer sauntered forward,
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Edward continued.“They have information on my secret dealings and are using ghost products. So, they have money…or sponsors. And, they are not causing any harm to humans, yet, my business is bleeding. So, I am the target!” Edward Kramer declared softly.The other man eyed Lord Kramer.“Someone wants to hurt ME. Someone is attacking ME. Someone has the audacity to strike at what matters the most to me at a crucial time, a key juncture, in my life.”“It’s personal,” the guest summarized.“Yes. Quite so,” Lord Kramer droned.“That’s a long list,” the other man commented flatly.“But we do have one,” Edward Kramer replied snidely.“WE do, do we?” the man retorted dryly.Edward’s gaze shifted back to his guest. He smiled cordially.“Yes. WE,” Edward replied casually.The other man sat back, shaking his head lightly as he joined Lord Kramer with a confident smile of his own.==========Upstairs in Lord Kramer’s home, Lady Kramer was occupied with her own troubles.“Vincent! Get up! What ar
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Tyler opened his palm and pulled on his bottom desk drawer.He took out a small box ten inches long, four inches wide, and two inches deep, and dropped the activated Junster into the radiation-proof box.It clattered on the others, also already charged.Tyler closed the box and stared at it.Payment complete, he mused.Once this is delivered, the show will begin, he thought to himself.Lord Edward Kramer…It’s going to be a very exciting year for you. Your fiftieth birthday will mark the beginning of you and your family’s end.==========About the same time, Lord Kramer was busy with his assistants in his home office.“Attacks are growing at our locations,” Sandy, his lead P.A., reported tightly as he stood before his Master.“What are they using?” Lord Edward Kramer rumbled.“Junster, Sir. Untraceable,” his second P.A. chimed in. Ruben. The quietest of his three closest aides.“How can that be?” Lord Kramer snapped, his blue eyes moving between the two men.“No one has reported any m
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But Tyler always found his way through, always made it out. Even if he had to dig his way with his bare hands. Even if he had to use his own magic, which always felt like he was peeling his own skin.Most everyone in Ashrone, from the highest to the lowest class, could use magic.They were born with it.Gems amplified it.And people could amplify gems, used them – based on their original properties – for any number of things. From basic, ordinary, day-to-day uses to warfare.Gems were used in clothing, in accessories, in handheld tools, in technology, in medicines. Everything.They made items stronger, more durable, longer-lasting, more powerful.They made people stronger, more durable, more – anything physical. But the better the owner’s body was at doing the thing the magic was used to amplify, the more powerful the effect would be.It did not extend life.It did not heal sickness.It only made life easier, amplifying things that already existed, for the ordinary people.The gems be
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