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Dancing With The Devil's Heir

Chapter 5 A Toast, To You My Dear

Word Count: 1390    |    Released on: 29/04/2025

s and it had the unique architectural feature of having incorporated one of the city's historic landmarks in its structure-the old Treasury building. Vivienne liked t

uge open quadrangle. Above it-all three storeys of the Treasury Building-was a sky-lighted roof through which sunlight streamed during the day. A huge urn, resplendant with

ceilinged room, furnished with all the formal elegance of a Victorian mansion. All the waiters were in tails, the tables graced

as she was seated with elabora

asked, eyeing her sharp

thank

their glasses. Gabriel Car

d may you savour eve

e said smoothly. 'I int

do, now that you've finished y

a locum for a while... get some

ed appr

en decided he might as well know it now. 'I intend to

that any, sign of disapproval from him might act as a

e care of the people who can't pay for what they need, who don't have anyone to

give. But there had to be some way around it. Be damned if he would see her sent to some godforsaken hole! He could pull some strin

versation was deferred while they m

ar's Eve,' Gabriel said in a deliberate ch

ed her as a father, Vivienne figured, and she kept rigidly to the lines. she had drawn up in her mind. They were very basic ... the provision of a ro

her father because it was a public acknowledgement of her kinship with him, and she would not be de

children had held pride of place all their lives. That wa

tourb-de force,' she remarked lightly.

d welco

teal any of Ar

-status if it meant a chance that I'd approve her choice of second husb

will

th. She was four years older than Vivienne and she had resumed her position as head of

he's a better bet than the high-class wimp she chose last

cynicism. 'Don't you care t

taking on, it's most likely she doesn't want to know. If I tell her, she'll only think I'm trying to destroy her one

possible she held the fate of her half-sister in her hands made

ts, no strings attached, and he sti

ter raised a sc

ought him off. And hate me for it.' He looked at Vivienn

N

xtend that far. 'What you suggest ... I would do that for you, Vivienne, because you have the strength of charact

Father. I have my own ways and means,' Vivienne informe

ante, his other daughter a superficial socialite: but Vivienne was of the same fibre as himself and

gh of her to make a fair judgement. I leave it to

he lived long enough ... if his heart didn't give out before he could close the gap b

cerned,' he said tiredly. 'All I can do is kee

bear fruit some time in the future. He decided it was worth a try. 'My door is always

at him. 'I didn't

e for you to take ... when you w

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1 Chapter 1 Twenty-Three Red Roses2 Chapter 2 Anonymous Admirer3 Chapter 3 Happy Birthday Vivienne4 Chapter 4 Ghosts of The Past5 Chapter 5 A Toast, To You My Dear6 Chapter 6 Dinner, Interrupted7 Chapter 7 Accepting His Challenge8 Chapter 8 Two Can Play9 Chapter 9 Looking For The Perfect Dress10 Chapter 10 So Many Louis The Fourteenths11 Chapter 11 Unmasked12 Chapter 12 A Kiss, a Breath, a Breakdown13 Chapter 13 The Island Deal14 Chapter 14 Shadows of Deceit15 Chapter 15 One Month, One Condition16 Chapter 16 Is it the Money, Tammy 17 Chapter 17 The Turning Point18 Chapter 18 Goodbye, See You Soon19 Chapter 19 Welcome to Te Enata20 Chapter 20 Nowhere to Run21 Chapter 21 Neighbours22 Chapter 22 To Thine Own Self, Be True23 Chapter 23 A Tour Round the Island24 Chapter 24 Let's Go To The Feast25 Chapter 25 Tamure Dance26 Chapter 26 Bare Beneath the Stars27 Chapter 27 Weeks of Ecstasy28 Chapter 28 I Will Never Love You, Adrian29 Chapter 29 Please Don't Go30 Chapter 30 Message From Home31 Chapter 31 His Other Side32 Chapter 32 Back Home33 Chapter 33 Weight of The Past34 Chapter 34 Let's Make it Permanent35 Chapter 35 Torn Between Heart and Duty36 Chapter 36 A House No Longer a Home37 Chapter 37 Te Enata Changed Her38 Chapter 38 Order in The House39 Chapter 39 The Girl in the Boardroom40 Chapter 40 When the Heart Remembers41 Chapter 41 A Heart on the Table42 Chapter 42 Still Beating43 Chapter 43 Two Weeks of Quiet44 Chapter 44 Her Mother's Letter45 Chapter 45 In His Arms Again46 Chapter 46 Left Over Silence47 Chapter 47 Hearts in Bloom48 Chapter 48 Blue and Gold49 Chapter 49 Lunch Served with Suspicion50 Chapter 50 The Confrontation