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Chapter Thirty
A New Proposal
Landon adjusted Orion’s reins and prepared to mount. He’d probably dodged a bullet, both literally and figuratively. Grey would have been perfectly within his rights to demand he marry Keelan today, and at gunpoint. He lifted his sleeve and wiped the small beads of sweat from his hairline. If he ever married, it would be too soon. His line of work didn’t accommodate wives very well. And he enjoyed his freedom. He couldn’t help looking back toward the upper windows of the house. So why did he feel as if something thorny scraped the inside of his chest?
“Hart.”
He turned toward Commodore Grey, who was alone with his brother on the porch. The commodore’s pallor was more pronounced, now that his anger had diminished. The veins on his stark hands glared lik
