NICHOLAS
Drug dealers, traffickers, cult leaders. There was a long list of people cramped up in this hall but still my mind kept running back to one.
When she came down from those stairs, I’d almost said screw this ball. Let’s stay home. She has no idea I worship the very ground she walks on. . That damn red dress. She moved like fire in silk, every step calculated, fluid, lethal. She wasn’t hiding tonight.
She was hunting.
And God help me… I wanted to be caught.
Every rise and fall of her chest dragged my eyes back to her, every time she parted her lips I felt like grabbing her and kissing them until she was imprinted in my soul. Maybe she already was.
I cleared my throat and forced myself to focus. The vultures had begun circling, bold socialites, nosy heirs, curious allies… all e
