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Sold to the Cold Aristocrat
  1. 1. The Ballerina's Debt
  2. 2. The Terms of Surrender
  3. 3. Cathedral of Stone
  4. 4. The Silk Nightgown 🔒
  5. 5. The Rules of Vance Manor 🔒
  6. 6. The Glass Conservatory 🔒
  7. 7. Society's Gilded Cage 🔒
  8. 8. Whispers in the Dark 🔒
  9. 9. The Private Theater 🔒
  10. 10. The Scottish Highlands 🔒
  11. 11. Fire in the Highlands 🔒
  12. 12. Secrets of the Bloodline 🔒
  13. 13. Camille's Defiance 🔒
  14. 14. The Library Hearth 🔒
  15. 15. The Palais Garnier Return 🔒
  16. 16. Shadow in the Wings 🔒
  17. 17. In the Clutches of the Vulture 🔒
  18. 18. The Duke's Retribution 🔒
  19. 19. The Parisian Hotel Suite 🔒
  20. 20. Healing the Scars 🔒
  21. 21. Vows Renewed in Venice 🔒
  22. 22. The Venetian Palace 🔒
  23. 23. The Announcement 🔒
  24. 24. The Starlight Ball 🔒
  25. 25. The Nursery of Silk and Stone 🔒
  26. 26. The Birth of an Heir 🔒
  27. 27. The Eternal Dance 🔒

Chapter 18

The Duke's Retribution

Sold to the Cold Aristocrat · Elena Vance & Julian Laurent · 7 min read

The flooded subterranean catacombs beneath the Palais Garnier swarmed with flashing tactical lights, the shouting of French counter-terrorism officers, and the metallic clatter of automatic rifles. Henri Dupont lay in the shallow, murky water, his face mangled, his jaw fractured, and his right arm hanging limp at an unnatural angle. Two GIGN officers hauled him upright by the collar of his ruined coat, pinning his good arm behind his back…

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