King's Passion (2011)

Adrianne Byrd's House of Kings series opens with Eamon King, eldest of three brothers who run the Doll House gentlemen's clubs in Atlanta, Las Vegas and Los Angeles with their cousin Quentin Hinton. A bachelor party he books ends with the groom married to a stripper, and Eamon is left to deal with the jilted bride-to-be, Victoria Gregory. (Open Library)

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Montblanc (unidentified model): Turning up at Victoria's door to take her to dinner, King is told she is not hungry, at which her stomach growls for a full minute. He glances at his platinum Montblanc, revises the forty-five minutes to the reservation to forty-four and tells her to shake a leg; on the next page it is forty-two. The text spells the maker MontBlanc. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: A full minute later, the humiliation ended and King simply glanced down at his platinum MontBlanc watch and said, "Make that forty-four minutes. You better shake a leg." (Adrianne Byrd, King's Passion, scan cataloged as Arabesque/Kimani, undated in the catalog record, p. 91; he looks at the watch again on p. 92, the series note names him as Eamon King, and Open Library dates the book 2011; Internet Archive scan OCR)