Chapter 98: A Stranger in the Night

 Delaney sat at a card table next to her husband. The other men around the table looked up and upon seeing Vincent, shifted back a bit in their seats. Win sat down in the last open seat and smiled around at all of them with his big rosy cheeks. He waved to the man behind the bar to bring them all a drink.

 "Well gentlemen," he grinned, "I believe most of you may remember Lady Delaney but I don't know that you've had the pleasure of meeting her husband, Lord Vincent Adair, Duke of Edgewood."

 All around the table were mumbles of hellos and nods in his direction, none meeting his eyes. Vincent's eyes flashed around at the other faces before they dropped to the table in front of him,