As I reach to push the button for the elevator, I notice that he does too, while the corners of his eyes are observing me very closely. I only hoped t...at I was still as put together as possible; headphones almost dangling out of my jacket’s pocket as I slowly undo the top two to expose bare skin, only briefly framed by the “v neck” shirt underneath. Despite not looking at him as I did this, I swear I still felt his eyes over me. “Your name starts with an “A”, right? I bet you get that comment a. Cooper James must've known what his parents might have left him, but Harley Scoville pretending to be Cooper James was completely lost. I gave my new cell number to Mr. Booker then warned him I was riding a motorcycle, so wouldn't be able to answer if he called while I was on the way in."You'll probably want to use the City parking garage on First & B street. Our offices are right across the street from it on First." Sounds good, see you soon."The GPS, and it still struck me as odd that Cooper. He was related to the Duke. The worthy Bishop was outraged that a fähnlein of heretics who had defiled the Holy City were given hospitality by the Duke. Not even the fact that the Free Saxons had saved quite a few nobles and had seen the Sternfels children to safety could mollify the Bishop's wrath. When the Duke maintained that he was bound by his word to offer hospitality to his son and daughter's benefactors, the Bishop cut short his visit and left castle and town, not without leaving orders. "Yes," she answered him quietly. "I'll marry you."What normally should have made her ecstatically happy put a deep gulf of worry in the pit of her stomach.Heidi stood nervously by the door. Normal for a bride to be nervous, she thought, but then there wasn't anything normal about this wedding, really. All it needed was a shotgun, the thought.Just as Jake had promised, it had been three weeks, and they were getting married. During that time, he had treated her, for the most part, as any fiancé.