Forbidden Game: Seducing the Bride at the Altar novel · Chapter 27 of 32

Chapter 27: Four Hundred Guests

By the afternoon of the gala, the foam was at my shoulders.

Wrist to elbow to heart.

Ida buttoned me into the sea-green satin at five o'clock.

She did the buttons slower than she needed to.

Jasper was waiting on the dock in his father's tuxedo.

He'd trimmed his beard and combed his hair back, and the hair hadn't stayed.

He looked at me long enough that the big one coughed.

"Say something, boss."

"I'm thinking."

"Think faster. The truck's running."

"You look," Jasper said, and stopped, and started again. "You look like you could sink his ship."

"That's the plan."

The Fortune lay at the passenger terminal downtown, white from bow to stern, every deck strung with lights.

She was as long as a city block.

A string quartet played at the bottom of the gangway.

A woman with a clipboard read our invitation.

"Mrs. Jasper Stoddard," she said, and looked up at me, and went pink. "Oh."

"It's me," I said. "I'm famous."

Behind us in line, the Coast Guard captain wore dress whites with a row of ribbons.

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