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Nine months later, the Kane family's freight company finally went under.Victor sat in his office in Old Harbor with overdue freight bills spread out in front of him. After three straight quarters of losses, the shipowners who'd once been happy to extend credit now insisted on cash, and the dockworkers had started demanding their back pay.He called his finance director over. "Wasn't the tugboat deal on the west shore settled? We've got two freighters coming into port next week. Why are they suddenly saying they won't take our business?"The finance director looked grim. "The Morris family bought the three supply depots that used to serve us, and they took over those two tugboat fleets too. The Kane family's debts haven't been paid, so they've suspended the partnership under the contract. If we find someone else, it'll cost at least twice as much."The pen in Victor's hand stopped, its nib digging into his fingertip until a bead of blood appeared.He knew who'd made that decision.What
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Before that message could even go out, someone caught Vivian by the wrist.Two plainclothes police officers stood in front of her, and one of them showed his badge. "Vivian Dale, you're suspected of hiring someone to commit assault and of willfully destroying another person's valuable property. We need you to come down to the station for questioning. You have the right to remain silent, and you have the right to an attorney."The color drained from Vivian's face in an instant.She struggled wildly. "What right do you have to arrest me? Does the Kane family know about this? Mrs. Kane won't let you...""The person who reported it has already submitted evidence," the officer cut her off. "You can save what you want to say for your lawyer."The people around her went quiet. None of the Kane relatives who'd trailed after her to watch the show dared to step forward.Vivian turned to look for Victor. But he was still standing outside the East Hall with his back to her, motionless, as if all t
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Victor's hand froze in midair.Arthur let go of my hand and raised his left. The plain platinum wedding band on his ring finger, engraved with our names inside, caught the light."I just swore in front of every witness here to be Erin's husband," he said calmly. "Mr. Kane, you've crashed our wedding."I raised my left hand too. The two rings were a matching pair, with no huge stones, but they fit snugly on our fingers.Victor stared at them as if, for the first time, he was looking at something that could never be undone."That's impossible!" He was breathing hard. "This morning you were still at my house. You even rode over to the banquet hall. You didn't say a word to me. How could you turn around and marry someone else just like that?""I did say something." I looked at him. "When you decided to take the wedding car to pick up Vivian, I told you the wedding was off. You smiled at me and told me not to be silly."He opened his mouth."After I got to the banquet hall, she had your mot
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The heavy doors of the West Hall were shoved open and banged against the wall with a dull thud."Erin!" Victor stood in the doorway, out of breath, his voice so loud that a whole row of guests turned around. "You're in the wrong hall! Our people are waiting for you next door!"I'd just finished exchanging rings, and Arthur was still holding my hand.He felt me stiffen and leaned closer. "Do you want me to have someone show him out?""No." I squeezed his hand back. "I'll set him straight myself."I took a step forward. "I'm not in the wrong hall. The man I'm marrying today is Arthur Morris."Victor stared at me, then at Arthur. Shock and anger gave way to disbelief.Arthur was half a head taller than him, dressed in a sharply tailored charcoal suit. He was unarmed, yet the few Kane guards at the door stopped in their tracks without thinking. Everyone in Gray Harbor knew the Morris family controlled the most important shipyards on the north shore, and no one wanted to start trouble at hi
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The woman who walked through the doors wasn't me at all.It was Vivian, in the wedding dress I'd had made, her short veil perfectly in place and a pure white bouquet in her hands. She walked slowly toward Victor in time with the music, looking far healthier than she had in the dressing room.Victor stared at her. "What are you doing? Where's Erin?"Her tears fell right on cue, and the microphone beside the officiant carried her voice through the whole East Hall. "Victor, Erin left. She said she'd had enough a long time ago. She said all you do is rely on her to clean up your messes, and she said... she never wanted to marry into the Kane family at all."The whole hall erupted.An old dock boss in the front row sneered without bothering to hide it. "The groom used the wedding car to escort another woman, and he let someone else wear the wedding dress too. What was the bride supposed to do, stand at the door and beg him?"I always said Erin couldn't put up with it forever. She landed so
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But only a moment later, Vivian smiled again."So you broke three of his ribs. So what? He's a gambler who took money. Do you think he'll change his story to help you?" She walked slowly closer. "Once he gets to the East Hall, I'll have him tell hundreds of guests what he did to you last night. By then, even if nothing happened to you, nobody will believe it. Victor's mother cares about appearances more than anything. Do you think she'll still let you be the Kane family's bride?"There was an almost crazed certainty in her eyes."Didn't you see? Today I even got the wedding car to come for me instead of you. This is Kane territory. They'll only believe me. You might win once, but can you keep winning for the rest of your life?"So that was it.The lockdown at North Port had never been serious enough to justify diverting the groom's motorcade. The sudden illness and the initiation rites read out at the door had all been meant to make me miss the ceremony. Once that man showed up, she'd
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