Golden Apples — Rose Elver

Vere focused on the man at the desk. Their glances locked in a kind of declaration of war.

Gavin Ingham was just like the Emperor Nero -- thumbs up or thumbs down, according to his whim. Vere suddenly loathed this man with a reckless fury.

"If they had warned me beforehand how prejudiced you were," she asserted angrily, "I wouldn't have bothered to come here at all!"

The flare of anger in his eyes sparked a shiver down her back.

Hero: Gavin Ingham
Heroine: Vere Pelham