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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 7

Scent of Salt and Storm

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

By eleven o'clock that night, the massive logistical operation had been executed with military precision. Under Tristan’s direct authority, forty specialized naval dockworkers from Sterling Oceanic had converged on berth twelve. Using heavy overhead gantry cranes, they had hoisted a replacement titanium-alloy intermediate shaft from the Greystone naval reserve stores, installed new self-aligning ceramic bearings, and flushed the lubrication systems with forty thousand liters of clean turbine oil. Aurelia had…

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