Antonio
I have never brought a woman with me to any event I had attended until now. Never even entertained the idea. And even as I had ordered Ephraim to arrange for the makeup artist and then the dress that I had myself selected which she hadn't liked much, there was this niggling doubt at the back of my mind that if I really wanted to change that. Now looking at her in that dress, I wondered if I should've left her behind, caged in my castle instead of letting all the men inside the mansion look at her. But wasn't that the very reason to bring her here, to let the men know what I have.
When Ephraim had asked me about the reason for bringing her here, I had told him that it was just a strategic move to let the people know what happens when they cross me and to let Erica know how not e
