SOCIETY WOLVES
~SIMONE'S POV~
The black Valentino gown felt like armor against my skin.
I stood before the full-length mirror in Nicholas's bedroom, adjusting the diamond necklace that had once belonged to his mother. The stones caught the light like trapped stars, beautiful and cold.
Tonight would be our first public appearance together. The annual Montenegro Charity Gala….where Sicily's elite gathered to drink expensive wine and pretend their money came from legitimate sources.
"You look..." Nicholas's voice came from behind me, rough with something I couldn't name.
"Like your prize?" I finished, not turning around.
His reflection appeared beside mine in the mirror.
The black tuxedo made him look every inch the dangerous man he was, but there was something else in his golden eye
