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Chapter 1

I'd held on to three freight docks in Gray Harbor for Victor Kane, yet on our wedding day, I couldn't even count on one car to pick me up.My name is Erin Walker. Everyone in Gray Harbor's shipping business knows I'm sharp at the negotiating table and merciless when it comes to collecting bad debts. Five years ago, I took over the Kane family's mess and turned a freight company on the brink of collapse into one of the most profitable operations at the port.Back then, Victor spent his nights picking fights at bars, and he couldn't even make payroll for the dockworkers. He held me and said that once the Kane family had its own fleet, he'd give me the grandest wedding in the city.We had the fleet now, and the wedding was finally here.But on the day itself, he took a single phone call and then stopped me just as I was about to get into the black wedding car."Change of plans." Victor rested his hand on the car door. He sounded as casual as if he were changing our route. "Vivian's stuck

Chapter 2

Half an hour later, the convoy pulled up at the oldest red-brick banquet hall in Gray Harbor.It had once been a shipping exchange. The Kane family had booked the East Hall, and the West Hall had originally been reserved for a Morris family reception for shipowners. Because the two families just happened to book the same building, Arthur Morris was able to use the banquet and band he'd already arranged to put together a wedding as soon as I texted him. The entrance was crowded with bodyguards in dark coats, but nobody thought anything of it.The car had barely stopped when I saw Vivian.She was standing at the entrance to the East Hall in a pearl-white wedding dress that was clearly a size too big for her. The skirt was embroidered with fine silver thread. It was the dress I'd spent three months perfecting with the seamstress. She was even wearing my short veil, smiling as sweetly as could be.When she saw me step out of the Morris family's car, her smile froze for a second, but she hu

Chapter 3

Victor caught up with me on the stairs and grabbed my wrist.His fingertips brushed my bandage. I gasped in pain and shook him off. "Don't touch me. I need to change. I've already wasted too much time."He relaxed and even looked a little smug. "In a hurry to get all dolled up to marry me? Fine, I was wrong. Once we're married, you'll have the final say at home."That promise had come too late to mean anything to me.I was about to answer when Vivian suddenly cried out in pain downstairs.She was holding on to the brass railing in the lobby, deathly pale and bent over, one hand pressed to her stomach. "Victor, I'm fine. You go be with Erin. Don't worry about me."Victor turned and rushed down to her. He swept Vivian up in his arms and shouted for the bodyguards to get the doctor who'd come with them. He was so frantic that he even forgot I was standing on the stairs.The guests at the entrance stared, stunned."Wait, did he just carry off the one in the wedding dress?""And the bride's

Chapter 4

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

Chapter 5

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

Chapter 6

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

Chapter 7

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

Chapter 8

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

Chapter 9

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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