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014 You Think You're the Mayor?
The laughter hit the private terrace like a breaking wave.Vanessa's aunt laughed so hard she had to set down her wine. The cousin who had spent lunch glued to his phone finally looked up, having found something more entertaining than the memes. Even the servers by the door traded humorous glances.Because he's supposed to be having lunch with me in the Presidential Suite.The ex-convict had actually said it out loud at a table full of people who knew exactly what the Presidential Suite was."Did you hear that?" one of the uncles wheezed. "The temporary husband dines with the head of the City Administration Department!""Careful," another relative called out, wiping his eyes. "Maybe he's the mayor himself, traveling in disguise. We should all bow."Vanessa stared at the tablecloth and prayed for the floor to open and gobble her up. She had known this man for less than two days, and he had already burned through more of her family's respect than she'd built in twenty-three years.I sho
013 Cheating Husband
Damon walked the length of the great hall and pulled open the front door.Vanessa Quinn stood on the steps with her arms folded, taking in the courtyard and the fountain. When her eyes came back to the doorway and found him standing in it, she blinked."Damon? What are you doing here?""I live here."Her eyebrows climbed. She looked past him into a foyer the size of her family's ballroom. She arrived—by the identical logic, along the identical road—at the identical conclusion Lucy Croft had reached upstairs twenty minutes earlier."Oh." Her whole posture softened into something almost kind. "Well—good for you. Honestly, that's good news. Getting hired on as a watchman or caretaker at a place like this, straight out of prison? That's better than most people manage."Damon said nothing."Forbes Construction handles maintenance here," Vanessa went on with a prideful tone. "So I'm here for a routine inspection. I didn't realize they'd started hiring staff."A small pause. "You could have
012 High Net Worth
"Put that down before you hurt yourself," Damon said.He said it the way a man says mind the step—no alarm, no defensiveness, and above all, no apology, which was the only thing that stopped Lucy from screaming again."You're threatening the person who just saved your life," he added, "with a letter opener. Sit down. Breathe."He swung his legs off the bed, walked past the blade as if it were furniture, took an apple from the bowl, and bit into it. The crisp snap filled the silent room.Lucy kept the dagger up for several long seconds. Her breathing was ragged. Then—because the man was eating fruit and there is a limit to how long a person can point a knife at someone eating fruit—she lowered it a fraction."Saved me from what?""Someone put a bomb inside your chest." Damon took a second bite. "A very specialized one. It went off early. I took it out and dealt with it. You'll be tired for a day."Lucy stared at him. "A bomb. Inside—""Rampage energy, folded to a schedule. It started de
011 Soul Binding
Damon pressed two fingers to the woman's wrist and began.His free hand moved in fast, precise strikes—a walking line of points down both arms, across the chest, up the throat. The unconscious body arched once off the bed with a gasp, then went utterly limp.Her breathing dropped into the deep, flat stillness of induced hibernation.Her heartbeat slowed. Her metabolism slowed. Everything in her slowed except the thing in her chest, which was accelerating.Damon raised his right hand and drew on his abilities.Sovereign force poured up out of his core and into the limb. The hand changed. Flesh went pale, then luminous, then—impossibly—translucent. A shape of golden light in the outline of a hand. The bones inside it visible as darker gold.The Spectral Fist. The arcane surgery technique of the sovereign path, which did not cut because it did not need to.He drove his hand into the woman's chest.Her skin and sternum offered no resistance. His fingers passed through living tissue without
010 Rampage
Damon used perhaps only a hundredth of his strength.The punch met the Porsche's nose at the exact instant the front bumper reached him, and the sound that came off the impact was not a crash. It was a single, enormous boom—thunder generated at ground level—that rolled outward across the ridge and sent birds up out of the treeline for half a mile in every direction.A shockwave washed down the road. Leaves and gravel fled the epicenter.The hood crumpled inward around Damon's fist like foil closed over a stone. The engine block folded. The rear wheels came off the ground, hung a full second in the air with the whole chassis vertical, then slammed back down.Damon lowered his smoking fist and rolled the shoulder once.He had not moved his feet.The driver's door came off its hinges with a single pull. Inside, a young woman was slumped over the wheel.She was slender and elegantly put together—a crisp white blouse, a tailored skirt, red leather heels resting against the pedals, dark hair
009 The Rented Husband
The birthday lunch resurrected itself with indecent speed.Within ten minutes the great room had rearranged into celebration—champagne poured, chairs pulled in around Shane Dutton.Death had come to the house and left again. The Quinn family did what families do with a survived catastrophe: it began converting the terror into an anecdote."—walked in and the man simply fled—""That's the Dutton name. That's forty years of standing in this city.""And that ex-con nearly got us all killed. Cheap, he says. To the Iceman's face. Do you understand what he almost did to this family?""He's a rented husband, and not a good one. Vanessa, dear, please tell me you kept the receipt."Laughter went around the table like a plate being passed.Vanessa stood at the edge of it with a glass she hadn't touched.She had come into this house with a hired stranger and a clean plan. Inside forty minutes, he had informed her father she was pregnant, informed the entire family he was a convict, and insulted t
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