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him?
    As soon as the words cleared her lips, Lindsey turned red and the color worked itself down her throat. How far did the blush go? To her abundant breasts heaving beneath the dress? Suddenly, Zadal’s interest was far more engaged.
     
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    Baruk didn’t know whether to be appalled or amused. The panic in Zadal’s gaze pushed him more toward the latter. He’d never considered a Triad with the harsh Senate opponent. The man didn’t have a soft bone in his body, yet he remained here fully willing to accept a spouse partnership with Baruk.
    “This is an important decision to make.” Was all Baruk could say.
    “I know.” Lindsey from Earth peered up at him with earnest eyes.
    Women looked at him with greed. With eyes to his wealth as the sole heir to the Laars fortune. In addition to his role as Senate Leader, Baruk ran a business empire worth billions of liko . But never had a woman gazed at him with such sincerity as displayed by this woman.
    Coming here, Baruk knew what he wanted in his wife. A woman of beauty and poise, average intelligence to converse with those he entertained and someone who’d help him run his life smoothly as his mother once did for his fathers.
    He did not come here to select a woman who was a stranger to his world. Yes, he’d been struck by her beauty when he noticed her standing in the corner but now that he knew more of her, she would not do. “I’m afraid I must decline.”
    It was akin to kicking a baby kerdal . The furry animals had the softest eyes. He cast a glance at Zadal, whose knowing stare tempted him to change his mind. Baruk resisted the unspoken childish dare.
    “I’m sure Senate Leader Zadal can name someone else more appropriate for your Triad.”
    Because no way would the man deny this beauty. Zadal could be cruel and without mercy but he wasn’t stupid. Never that. Zadal understood as surely as Baruk that no other woman here would have him with his status as briot and questionable parentage. Men and women formed Triads befitting their status, placing Zadal in a difficult position.
    As a Senate Leader his respectable role required and deserved a wife on his professional level but his personal life included a mother who worked in the sex trade and an unknown father because his mother avoided a Triad marriage.
    “I want you , Baruk. You made my heart ping.”
    Baruk’s head jerked up.
    “I promised I’d marry a man who made my heart ping not just anybody.” She waved a hand in Zadal’s direction. “He’s handsome and polite. Maybe on the scary side but nobody’s perfect, except together we could be. He needs a spouse and I think you do too. Both of you need a bride and here I am.”
    Baruk laughed, he couldn’t help it. He laughed and laughed, drawing stares their way. He laughed until Zadal shot him an ugly look. When he finally had his hilarity under control, Baruk answered. “Well then, I agree.”
    Perhaps he’d end up in helta where evil souls reportedly roamed but Baruk refused to walk away from a woman who spoke this passionately about a tradition he’d become quite jaded about. And all her talk of pinging? He had no idea what that was. But what was the worst that could happen?
    Having Zadal and the Earthling for a Triad Marriage couldn’t be that bad after all.

Chapter 6
     
    Lindsey rushed through the twisting halls of the administration center a kind soul directed her toward. The soles of her shoes clicked on the tiled black and white checked floor of the massive building as she searched for room 202. The overhead skylights let in the early morning sunshine and busy workers stared as she passed them like a rocket.
    Unlike on Earth and most business facilities, Lindsey learned after her mad dash upstairs that 202 didn’t necessarily mean second floor. So back down she tumbled, hands gripping the metal railing while sweat gathered between her breasts and beneath her arms as she pumped her elbows faster. Lindsey skidded to a halt when she