Kissed by the billionaire i can't stand
The kind that comes out when your body doesn't know whether to cry or run, so it picks the worst possible option instead.
The sound cut through the silence like a knife.
Elena slapped her hand over her mouth immediately, but it was too late. The laugh was already out there, already floating through the Plaza Hotel ballroom, already landing on the ears of three hundred of New York's most powerful people.
And on Alexander Knight himself.
He stood completely still, champagne soaking through his white dress shirt, spreading dark and wet across his custom tuxedo jacket. His grey eyes, sharp as cut glass, moved from the stain on his chest to the woman kneeling on the floor in front of him.