Summary: Captain Lord Ivan Xav Vorpatril, bright but lazy Imperial officer, and occasional donkey to his Imperial Auditor Coz, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, is currently visiting the Barrayaran Imperial world of Kormaar while on assignment with his superior, doing his duty and not an ounce more. That is until his friend (and he uses that term loosely) Byerly Vorrutyer knocks on his door with the tale of a soon to be distressed damsel and would Ivan mind terribly seducing her to get her out of the way of the all the crap that will soon befall her?
Which is how he meets Tej, former daughter of a mid-level Jackson's Whole clan, now orphaned and on the run after the jump point station her family owned suffered a mightily hostile takeover. She's pretty, she's smart, she has a big rack healthy body, and she's got a nanny/babysitter who's bright blue.
And, being Ivan, he finds himself married to her in the shortest Barrayaran wedding in history, groats and all, and then starts falling in love with her.
( Oh, Lois, all is forgiven )
Which is how he meets Tej, former daughter of a mid-level Jackson's Whole clan, now orphaned and on the run after the jump point station her family owned suffered a mightily hostile takeover. She's pretty, she's smart, she has a
And, being Ivan, he finds himself married to her in the shortest Barrayaran wedding in history, groats and all, and then starts falling in love with her.
( Oh, Lois, all is forgiven )