Violet It took me forever to calm him down. God knows what came over Hades, but he actually wanted to take me somewhere else, just so no one else could see me. After all that time, after all that effort, after enduring Sierra fussing over my hair and makeup for an hour, and after putting on the dress that nearly gave me a heart attack when I heard the price, this man really wanted to keep me locked away for himself. And the worst part was that he was dead serious about it. The makeup artists alone cost more than my college tuition. Sierra had said their names so casually. And I still couldn’t wrap my head around it around the dress. Twenty million dollars. Twenty. Million. Dollars. For a fabric! Even thinking about it now made my blood pressure spike. Matthew had spoiled me before,

