Menace Wrapped in Silk

Vivienne’s POV

The name hit the air like a loaded gun with the safety off.

Giovanni Lombardi.

It took a full second for my brain to catch up to the sound of it, and even then, it didn’t register until I felt the shift in the room. The buzz of the stadium—the chanting, the clapping, the dull beat of music—all of it faded behind a curtain of tension I couldn’t quite explain. It was like the entire w