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014 You Think You're the Mayor?
The laughter hit the private terrace like a wave breaking.Vanessa's aunt laughed so hard she had to put her wine down. The cousin who had spent the whole lunch on his phone looked up, delighted with something better than his screen.Even the servers by the door traded looks.The ex-convict had said it out loud. At a table full of people who knew exactly what the Presidential Suite was."Did you hear that? The rented husband takes lunch with the head of the Administration Department!"One of the uncles wheezed it out and had to put a hand on the table."Careful. 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 up.Two days. She had known him for two days.He had already burned through more of her family's respect than she had built in twenty-six years.I should never have brought him here.Shane came out of his laughter with the ease of a man who did this professionally. He leaned back, swirled hi
013 Cheating Husband
Damon walked the length of the great hall and pulled the front door open.Vanessa Quinn stood on the steps with her arms folded, looking at the courtyard and the fountain. Her eyes came back to the doorway and found him standing in it."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.Then she arrived at exactly the conclusion Lucy Croft had reached upstairs twenty minutes earlier."Oh."Her whole posture went soft, and almost kind."Well, good for you. Getting taken on as a watchman at a place like this, straight out of prison? That's better than most people manage."Damon said nothing."Forbes Construction handles the maintenance here, so I'm up on a routine inspection. I didn't know they'd started hiring for nights."She paused."You could have told me. It would have made this morning easier to explain.""I find silence explains most things."Vanessa stared at him for half a second, trying to de
012 High Net Worth
"Put that down before you hurt yourself."He said it like a man telling her to mind the step. No alarm, no defending himself, and no apology at all, which was the only thing that stopped Lucy screaming again."You're threatening the man who pulled you out of a wreck this morning, with a letter opener. Sit down and breathe."Damon swung his legs off the bed and walked past the blade as if it were a chair.He took an apple out of the bowl and bit into it. The crack of it filled the quiet room.Lucy held the dagger up for several long seconds with her breathing ragged.Then she lowered it. There's a limit to how long anybody can point a knife at a man eating fruit."Saved me from what.""Somebody put a bomb inside your chest. A very specialized one, and it went off early. I took it out and dealt with it, and you'll be tired for a day.""A bomb. Inside my chest.""Rampage energy, folded up and set to a schedule. It started going off early and the shock hit your heart before it reached your
011 Soul Binding
Damon pressed two fingers to her 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.Her body arched once off the bed with a gasp, then went completely limp. She was barely breathing.Everything in her slowed down except the thing in her chest, which pulled tighter once a second and kept getting faster.Damon raised his right hand and drew.Sovereign force came up out of his core and into the arm. The hand changed.The flesh went pale, then bright, then clear. A hand made of gold light, with the bones inside it showing darker.The Spectral Fist. Arcane surgery, and it didn't cut because it had no need to.He drove his hand into her chest.The skin didn't stop him and neither did the bone. His hand went into her without cutting anything, and closed around the thing coiled up in the middle.It was like gripping the inside of a frozen furnace.Damon set his shoulders and pulled.It came out with a wet tea
010 Rampage
Damon used perhaps a twentieth of what he had.The punch met the Porsche's nose at the exact instant the bumper reached him.The sound was a single enormous boom, thunder made at ground level. It rolled out across the ridge and put birds up out of the trees for half a kilometer.A shockwave went down the road. Every window in the gatehouse a hundred meters uphill hummed in its frame.And the car stopped.Not slowed. Not skidded. Stopped, as if the mountain had reached out and taken hold of it.The hood crumpled inward around his fist like foil closing over a stone.The engine block folded, and the frame buckled in a long ripple back through the doors.The rear wheels came off the ground. The whole chassis stood vertical for a full second, then slammed back down.The front end had buried itself thirty centimeters into the asphalt.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 one pull.A young woman lay
009 The Rented Husband
The birthday lunch came back to life with indecent speed.Inside ten minutes the great room had rearranged itself into a celebration. Champagne poured, chairs pulled in around Shane Dutton, and the coffin already being polished into a story worth retelling.Death had come to the house and left again. The Quinn family did what families do with a survived catastrophe and started turning the terror into an anecdote."He walked in and the Iceman 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 very good one. Vanessa, dear, didn't his own family want him either?""Two days. She's had him two days and he's already cost us the house."The 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 walked into this house
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