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Miss Dunaway tucked against his side. "I see you've got your hands full."
    "I demand to be put back into my cell, Captain!" The woman stopped struggling and thrust her chin toward Robins, which gave Ross the chance to wrap his free arm around her fully and pull her perfectly rounded backside against his thigh. "Make this lout let go of me!"
    "And what about your other guests, Captain?" Ross nodded toward the courtyard, pleased to see it empty of the sea of women. "How are they faring?"
    "Safely on their way home, my lord, just as you suggested."
    "As you suggested?" Miss Dunaway whipped her head around and glared up at Ross, her fine, full lips in a furious pout, a fire blazing deeply in her eyes. "Just who are you, Blakestone, that you can throw your weight around Scotland Yard!"
    Ross did his best to glare back into all that indignation, but he found Miss Dunaway deliciously beguiling.
    Every part of her. Including that lovely, ripe hip she was mindlessly grinding into his groin as she frowned up at him in her anger, innocently arousing in him a fever she ought to leave be.
    Because he was in no position to be dallying with a woman just now. Though, bloody hell, he'd always been drawn toward the Miss Dunaways of the world. Toward this one especially. Her rare, soaring spirt. Her self-possession.
    And those deeply glittering eyes that would tempt him to explore.
    Dragging in a huge breath to cool his brain, Ross wrenched his illicit thoughts from his prisoner and directed his attention toward Captain Robins. "Now, if you have a paddy wagon and a driver available . .. ?"
    "Ah, Blakestone! I thought I heard your voice!" The Lord Mayor of London strode out of the captain's office, his deputy on his heels. "Good to see you, man. I was planning to pay you a visit this evening."
    "That still may be best, Lord Mayor," Ross said with a nod, having no hand free to shake the man's hand. "As you see, I'm all tied up at the moment."
    "Captain, I asked you to call the press," Miss Dun-away said, turning her glare on the startled Robins and stomping her foot. "Or did you expect me to fall for his lordship's little deception."
    "His . . . I'm sorry, what?" Robins crumpled his wiry brow as he cleared his throat. "Actually, miss, I've been a bit busy with . . . you know."
    "No, I don't know, Captain Robins. You arrested me for disturbing the queen's peace, and all I want in return is to tell my side of the story. In print."
    "Yes, well, I—"
    "Blakestone, if I might have a word with you. Just for a moment." Lord Mayor Callis had come to Ross's side, casting a wary glance at his prisoner.
    "Go ahead." Ross shifted Miss Dunaway slightly to . the side.
    "I suppose, I . . ." Callis hemmed a bit, tugged at his ear as he studied Miss Dunaway. "Yes, well, ahem . . . another one has . . . gone missing."
    "Either you unhand me, Blakestone," Miss Dunaway said with a hiss and a wriggle, "or I'm going to have Captain Robins arrest you right here and now."
    Ross did his best to ignore her, only held on more tightly, wondering what the devil the Lord Mayor was whispering about. "Another what, Callis? I've been out of the country for the last six months."
    "Another woman." Callis frowned more deeply and whispered even louder, "Lady Wallace went missing this morning."
    "Lady Wallace? Missing from where?" Though he still didn't understand what the man was talking about.
    But Miss Dunaway obviously did. She'd gone completely still in his arms, her shoulders drooping precipitously against him. Her pale green eyes wide and worried when she glanced up at him.
    "The lady simply disappeared from Regent Street, Blakestone. In broad daylight. That's why I came here to Scotland Yard. I mean to keep it completely quiet for the time being. I had just broken the news to the captain here."
    "And I was just about to ask the Lord Mayor why he wanted me to keep the matter quiet, " Robins said. "After all, if the woman is missing, shouldn't as many people know about it as