Todos los capítulos de Bride by Default: Capítulo 11 - Capítulo 12

(Sienna)The charity gala occupied the top two floors of a Mayfair hotel and was the hottest ticket in town right now.I wore black. Fitted, simple, the kind of dress that did its job without asking for attention. Adrian had looked at me in the elevator on the way down and said nothing, which I was swiftly learning was his version of a compliment.The room was full of people who knew each other in the layered, complicated way that old money and new power produce when left together long enough. Adrian moved through it with the ease of someone who had been doing this since childhood, his hand at my back, a name in my ear before each introduction, and never making it obvious that he was orienting me.I noticed. I didn't say so. And every touch and whisper had my bones slowly melting and my nipples at a permanent peak.It was the best kind of torture.Roland was already there when we arrived, mid-conversation with a grey-haired man I recognized from the Swift board, laughing at something