"You are going to love these, I guarantee it," he said grinning at me. When the Deacon grinned I realized he was missing several teeth."So thanks for ...he briefing. I'll take care of this or you can push the destruct button on me." I said."Sweetie, I don't need or want your permission. If it ends for you in that shit hole, it's just the way it goes. I doubt that you can even come back to haunt me." he said grinning again."Fair enough and when your number comes up on the kill list, I promise I. A marriage urged upon him by family, uniting his Earldom to the daughter of a Duke. The son of the marriage would be a Duke and an Earl at the same time. ‘That being the case it would be improper of me to become more intimate with you. I would ruin your reputation and with that tarnished it could be difficult for you to make a good marriage.’ I closed to him and looked up. ‘Rupert. How could I ever make a good marriage when any man I met I would compare with you, and find him wanting. I would. Finally, she let me know what was bothering her."You know TT, I don't like this one bit. I picked up on some of their conversations and got the strangest feeling that he was not just cheating on her." Go ahead. I think I know where this is going, but follow it through for me." Well, I think she started it and I think he was just getting even with her or just trying to even the playing field. I think she was cheating on him and he found out. But there was more to it than that, so maybe this was. ***Seren stared out the single viewport in the cell that held herself, herfamily and seven others. Far below the shuttle she could see that the ruinsof the city she had explored were but the tip of the iceberg - already theyhad passed over the abandoned and blasted ruins of a dozen othermetropolises, each looking as if it could have been home to a million or moreresidents in the distant past. Networks of broken transportation corridors -what appeared to be highways, rail lines and the.