Chapter 7 Velvet Lies And Blood Oaths
- Alessia awoke to the scent of cigar smoke and gunpowder still clinging to her skin.
- She was wrapped in satin sheets in her own bedroom, the mansion deathly quiet now—like the chaos from last night had been erased by force. Her red dress lay in a heap across the floor, torn at the thigh, glittering with traces of what they’d done.
- But Luciano was gone.