“After all,

you’re Darius Reed. I’ll do anything I can to help you.”

Darius looked at

his watch. “I don’t have much time left for you. The Gillette family’s going to

be here soon.”

Shelvin’s eyes

widened as he looked at Darius in disbelief. “How’s that possible? Shouldn’t

they have their hands full right now? Why would they show up here?”

Darius glanced at

Samantha. “I think the answer to that probably has something to do with this

woman, but I don’t know exactly what it is. You can look into the matter

yourself and tell me the answer once you have it.” He stretched his neck.

Erin hurried over

to him. She sized Shelvin up, then frowned. “Mr. Reid, what’s he doing here?”

Shelvin was a

little hurt by her question. He raised his voice in dissatisfaction and said,

“Hey, you may be beautiful, but you can’t be so contemptuous of me! I’m a great

guy, and plenty of women were interested in me even before I became an

enlightened martial artist. They were practically dying for me to marry them,