onardo after the dinner at the Bi

running wild with questions she couldn't even voice. Every polished marble floor, every golden c

waitress in the Bronx; the next, she was trapped in the gilded fortress of a m

ed gardens. Stars sprinkled the night sky, and the full m

really n

tiny-to be a wea

d against the cool glas

low voice sa

Leonardo's voice immediat

he said quietl

her breath fogging th

hen, his hand touched her

u," he said, his voice surp

u chained me. You turned me into your prope

houlder. "It wasn't supposed to be like

re away from him, spinning to face hi

t, her voice shaking. "And

king in his eyes, something primal. Yet, buried deep within

er a long moment. "You do m

ht she saw the man beneath the monster. But she couldn't affor

-

cret A

mind was too restless, her spirit too restl

servants' quarters-a maze of narrow hallways and hidden doors. She was

had no

way, she stumbled upo

hispered

ound, ready to

several times. His olive skin and sharp brown eyes gave him a bo

reatening now. If anythi

right?" he asked

ded cau

glancing over his shoulder nervo

her eyes. "Why w

ause I know what it's like to be trapped. Leonardo think

te in his voice that resona

" she

But it's dangerous. You have to be rea

betrayal Leonardo had warned her about?

avy footsteps echoed down th

hissed before disappe

all, heart hammering, as two guards

ack toward her room, Marco's words rattling

before he b

e really bet

't... what woul

-

ngerou

Leonardo summone

behind a massive mahogany desk, a

?" she asked

cocky smirk that made her he

" he sai

a stunning diamond necklace-a choker of glittering st

iful," she

eck himself, his fingers brushing her skin

y," he murmured near h

asked, barely a

you be

inct screamed at her to tear the necklace of

stayed

playing by instinct. She w

tti's world, she would need to become som

es, lifting he

" she sai

curved into a sm

new somethin

wear his

t play h

he would be the on