Because I enjoy your company, I'm going to refrain from commenting on "conning your future wife and then ditching her" thing and go onto the adventure part of the story.

[She waves a hand because... dude. That's not something you say casually! Okay, it might be something she would say casually but then Aveline would yell at her and call her an ass. So. It's probably bad.]

And what happened? When you found the city, did you ransack it like a pirate gone mad? Or is it about the thrill of the chase?