Metal Beneath Silk

POV: Dante

I closed her door softly behind me, but her lingering presence stubbornly remained in my senses. It was a burning, fierce aura that proved impossible to shake from my mind. Vittoria D'Amore was not what I had ever anticipated when this twisted alliance began. I had expected the usual mafia princess—a spoiled brat steeped in arrogance, trapped in vanity, and weighed down by a crown far