VOWS OF THE VEILED kING
Chapter 11
The forbidden wing
Fiorenza POV
The heels of my expensive hill clicked against the cold marble of the Como villa’s east corridor, a sound too sharp, too alive for a house that felt increasingly like a stone tomb.
I adjusted the velvet strip of my dress the emerald silk Valeriano liked to see me in, as if hanging me in jewels and designer fabrics could cover the heavy, iron clad leash he had fastened around my throat.
To the outside world, I was merely the adornment of the estate, the compliant bride moving through the gilded cage with peaceful grace. But beneath the polished facade, my stomach was a knot of raw, jagged nerves.