ng about, Julian? What file

he sting in her knees. She grabbed Julian by his shoulders, shaki

ite designer shirt, a pathetic contrast to

eyes darting to the hallway as if the ghost was still

ust cause that accident. He planned it.

ts his hands on them, he's going to use

in and called her his princess, was a murderer? She wanted to scr

ulian? The man

er. He took the fall for Dad fifteen years

by tonight, he'd send a copy of the secondary ledger to the FBI.

go back to the lion's den, but not just to save

p. Her legs were trembling. "Dante's ca

with blood. "He's taking you to the Starlight Gala tonight,

d the safe. If you

a flash of pure loathing for

actually telling me the truth, even if that trut

ugh her own apartment. By the time she got back down to the black s

tmosphere had shifted. Dante wasn't there, bu

whisking her away to a dressing

. They painted her face into a mas

ue silk that clung to every curve, with a

t was a dress meant to say: I belong

s were finishing. He was in a black tuxedo

ng slowly from her heels to her throat, w

s," he c

avy click of his dress shoes the only sound. He stoppe

bare shoulders. His skin wa

tonight," he murmured. "H

oice steady despite the chaos in her mind. "To s

see what I've won," he said. He leaned do

the whispers. Tonight, they won't see a

, but Sienna didn't flin

he moment they stepped out of the limousine, the cameras went wil

n and the judgmental glares of the me

the music seemed to dip for a secon

on her waist tightening. "And don't sp

she had to and stood silently while Dante spoke to

scanner, anything that might lead

she sa

y, was a man with a jagged scar running d

at didn't fit, and he was

la

t. He raised a glass to

powder room," Sienn

rowed as he spotted Silas. The tensio

If you aren't back, I'm

rowd, her heart hammering against her r

ice hallway, hoping to find a q

wasn't

ened alcove behind a velvet curtain. She started

ath smelled like stale tobacco. "I told

er muffled cries dy

his face inches from hers. "He keeps a

When he's... busy with you. If I don

o the shadows of the service hallway b

teal from Dante while he was touching her

. Dante was waiting by the door, his face a mask of fury

say to you?"

... he just looke

disappear." He pulled her toward a

silent and suffocating. Dante was

ed into his home, he threw his jac

don't know that Silas went to see Julian today? I have eyes e

cracking. "He told me my father killed your father

wanted you to find out when it was too late to turn back! I

ainst him. The anger between them wa

s searching hers. "And you're already trying to bet

was racing for a different reason. The drive was

care," h

half-hearted protests, and ca

and pressed her against it. His hands w

er lips. "I should let Silas have you. But I ca

that left her breathless. Sienna felt the conflict

the zipper of her dress, her body betrayed her again. Th

umbling with his shirt, trying

oaned, her hea

oward the bed, but as he passed the sofa, Sienna reached out a han

. She just n

the cold metal of a U

Dante whispered, his

rom her face to her arm, which

o the sofa. He reached into his own pocket and

n them, a dark, mock

ng for

e. "I... I

pped the drive in half with one hand, t

talk to you. I wanted to see if you'd choose

He looked like the monster she had always feared, but th

a low, terrifying growl. "And now, Night

e on the side table, his

t, you learn what happens when

as her father's private line. The

t the phone, t

"Let's see what else your