Tori:
Let me say that the ride back to my prison is somehow even more tense than my drive to the courthouse. The slightest twitch of Nico's finger sends me spiraling, wondering if he plans on sealing this marriage the old fashioned way—s*x.
I couldn't do it, even with Alicia's life on the line. There's no way I'm letting her die, but there's also no chance in hell I could go through with that in a sober state of mind. I would need some kind of drug slipped into my drink to tolerate the smallest of touches from this man.
Not a man. A devil.
It's fair to say I've been through some s**t at the hands of the Iron Triad, but I'd never been frightened by them to the extent that Nico chills my blood. He's a powerful man with a whole network under him, and a dark history that would make the
