Nikolai.From the moment Vena appeared at the top of the staircase, the room ceased to exist.I had stood through countless ceremonies in this hall and endured endless political performances.None of it had ever moved me.Until she stepped into the moonlight.My breath hitched before I could stop it.Vena looked… No word felt sufficient.Beautiful was too simple.The silver gown clung to her showing her soft curves. Her red hair glowed beneath the glass dome, burning warm against all that silver, and for the first time I noticed not merely that she was strikingly gorgeous, but that she could ruin a man’s concentration.Mine.The realization irritated me as much as it enthralled me.I could not look away. My heart, a traitorous thing, struck hard once in my chest, then again.As she descended, I saw the tension in her shoulders, the effort it took her to hold herself composed beneath so many watching eyes.She was frightened, I could smell it.And yet, there was dignity in the way she c
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