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Bound in Velvet Chains
  1. 1. The Cold Altar
  2. 2. The Rules of Greystone Abbey
  3. 3. Defiance in the Gilded Cage
  4. 4. The Royal Ascot Clash 🔒
  5. 5. Whispers in the Carriage 🔒
  6. 6. The Sabotage on the Solent 🔒
  7. 7. Scent of Salt and Storm 🔒
  8. 8. Return to the Moors 🔒
  9. 9. The Library Encounter 🔒
  10. 10. The Unseasonal Blizzard 🔒
  11. 11. Fire in the Velvet Dark 🔒
  12. 12. The First Surrender 🔒
  13. 13. Worship on the Silk 🔒
  14. 14. Morning Frost and Shared Warmth 🔒
  15. 15. The Mediterranean Fleet Crisis 🔒
  16. 16. The French Maritime Infiltration 🔒
  17. 17. The High-Stakes Auction at the Palais de la Bourse 🔒
  18. 18. Ambush in the Old Port 🔒
  19. 19. Haven on Cap Ferrat 🔒
  20. 20. Unmasking the London Syndicate 🔒
  21. 21. A Vow by the Azure Sea 🔒
  22. 22. The London Admiralty Ball 🔒
  23. 23. The High-Stakes Waltz 🔒
  24. 24. Confrontation in the Admiralty Study 🔒
  25. 25. The Hostile Takeover Crushed 🔒
  26. 26. Arrests in Whitehall 🔒
  27. 27. The Mayfair Celebration 🔒
  28. 28. A True Proposal 🔒
  29. 29. Blessing at Greystone Abbey 🔒
  30. 30. Consummation of the Vows 🔒
  31. 31. The Launch of the Aurelia 🔒
  32. 32. The Secret Revealed 🔒
  33. 33. The Duke's Knees 🔒
  34. 34. The Birth of Tristan Alexander 🔒
  35. 35. Bound by Love: The Eternal Legacy 🔒

Chapter 17

The High-Stakes Auction at the Palais de la Bourse

Bound in Velvet Chains · Genevieve Du Pont · 6 min read

The following afternoon, the historic Palais de la Bourse on the Canebière in central Marseille was buzzing with palpable, high-stakes financial tension. Housed inside a magnificent nineteenth-century neoclassical palace featuring Corinthian columns, soaring gilded ceilings, and marble balustrades, the grand trading hall of the Marseille Maritime Exchange was packed with over two hundred shipping magnates, international salvage brokers, maritime attorneys, and financial raiders from London, Monaco, and Geneva. At the…

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