While other men were going wild, another was keeping the night wholesome.
The day actually started outside of the Grand Hotel for Ryan and Gwen. This day was very important, too: It was the day Ryan was set to propose.
He thought long and hard and asked many people for advice on how to do it. For one, he had asked his sister for ideas but she gave him ideas that didn't quite fit with how he knew Gwen was.
She asked him if he could rent out an entire restaurant for her, sing for her, and then propose with a lot of flowers. The next option was to propose to her in the Grand Hotel, in one of the private rooms there, and create a sexy atmosphere and then shaboink.
What was 'shaboink'? He learned it that day, and he looked at his sister in aghast.
Anyway, if someone was to propose to his sister one day, then he'd know what to suggest.
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Barbara was part of Victor's crew back then. She was first named, I think, during the POVs of Heat Wave Refugees. Iirc, one chapter was 'Another Misunderstanding' and she was rescuing refugees with Mauru's team back then