-a secluded passageway designed specifically to connect the main ballroom to t

The overhead fluorescent lights flickered, c

idor intersected with a heavy glass

door, a massive hand sho

ed around her wrist

off her feet. She was dragged through the glass door an

erior marble wall. The impact kn

om her fingers, hitting the co

bbed from the hard marble. She forced her eye

arp, angular jawline of the

. Her second

on radiated from his pores. He leaned in close, his ches

ony bin," Ivan sneered. His voi

her arm, but Ivan's grip was immovable. The dif

Ella felt the bones in her arm grind toget

rom hers. "You think putting on a dress tonight changes what you are

ing. She let her arm

s, bloodshot eyes. The cold wind

g through the wind. "From the day they brought me ba

skin. "Because you ruined this family. You ma

y laugh. The sound was e

er eyes piercing through his drunken haze. "You ha

hing hitched

realized the moment I walked into that house that I was smarter than you. You were terrified th

th hit him like a physical blo

oed violently down the secluded hallway, the sheer v

vy hand flew up into the air, his fing