Her beauty strikes me like a bullet. I'm a man of stealth and tranquil but every glance at her makes me lose those two qualities. Walking into the room to see her clock a gun at her sister shouldn't be so enticing but damn, that is fire. Whoever picked that dress for her, needs a raise in their allowance cause it fits perfectly like a glove and the color is what I've always loved to see on her, the color red. Later tonight, I'm planning to make the color of the dress rhyme with her skin. A sly smile stretches my lips as I watch her grab her clutch purse and struts over to me at the entrance of her room. Her tanned long legs look perfect in those heels, and just how I wanted, it snagged on her flesh. This night will be pretty tormenting for me, if I do say so myself.

"Davi," Tiana calls and we both turn our heads. Tiana scowls at me and I wink back at her. Davinia eyes the both of us suspiciously.

"What's the problem, Tiana?" She questions softly. She doesn't seem to to act tough with her sister. No, scratch that. She is tough but she let's her guard loosen when she's with Tiana and for some reason, I don't seem to like it.

"Be careful,"

Davinia squint her eyes at her sister like she can't believe that her sister is okay with not escorting her to the party. "Tiana I swear-" She gets cut off by Tiana dismissive wave of hand. Davinia nods gently, "I'll be careful, take a nap or something" she turns away and didn't get to see the sly smirk on Tina's face. I raise an eyebrow at her and she does nothing but shrug so ignore her. I know better than to get involve in their issue. Davinia walks out of the room first and I follow behind her, watching her from the back, loving the way her heels click with the marble tiles on the floor as she makes her way outside. Andrei bows his head at head at the sight of us and I nod back in greeting, so did Davinia. He goes to open the door of the limousine, I go down to pull her rope of the floor and when I look up, our eyes meet. I smirk and she looks away immediately before getting into the car and I follow.

We sit on the one sitters at the back and the door closes back down. There's an iron bucket filled with wine and champagne with dry ice. I stand to grab a bottle and a glass. I nudge the bottle over to her direction. "Would you like a glass?" she nods and looks out to the street, through the window. I pour wine into the glasses and hand one over to her before settling beside her.

"Thanks for the wine by the way, the whole family got drunk on it," I begin, watching her expression from above my glass. "Except for me, of course" She smiles briefly down at her glass of wine which she hasn't taken a sip from but continues to swirl it around, watching the liquid twirl with  a look in her eyes that I still can't put a name on. Its kind of mischievous but with a mixture of amazement and wonder and threat? Either its sexy.

"Family," She says like its a strange word. It means one thing, she knows. "When were you planning on telling me about your parents?" her voice is soft but chilly, she continues to swirl the glass and the more she swirls it, the more I feel like she plans on pouring the contents on me and smash the glass on my head. But of course its all in my head, I swallow the rest of the wine in my glass and take my time to relish the taste before I respond to her.

"Somehow I thought you knew about it and I did plan on telling you but the explosions happened. My apologies."

She looks away from her wine glass and tilts her head at me with that look still in her eyes. "I don't trust you but I will have to have a level of understanding with you if we want to this marriage to be at least blood free," She returns but I notice something. She didn't try to make her voice sound tough when she's speaking to me. Somehow It made me happy for a second there then I realized something. She isn't making her voice thick or hoarse, it's because she can't, the result of stress from pulling an all nighter, I now notice how her shoulders are tensed and how large her eyes are even with the make up.

"You're tired" I point out. Her eyes flicker over to mine for a second before she closes them and reopens them.

"yeah, Been busy." She says and I nod. It is true that there is most definitely rats in her circle but it seems difficult in catching them this time around cause from what I learnt about Miss Lucchese is that she's good at sniffling out rats so this is kind of frustrating for her but I guess giving her a clue won't be too much.

"Have you ever thought that this could be a collaboration of my enemies and yours?" she settles her glass on her right leg which is resting on her left and looks up at me. "It is very clear what their motion is" I continue and she blinks twice before releasing a business smile.

"And what motion is that?"

I smile back at her in the same manner. "For us to call off our engagement," She does not look surprise. Of course she had already deduced that from her own observations. She looks away for a brief second like she's contemplating on the betterment of sharing her burdens with me which I find quite funny cause we will be getting married and sharing burdens is very much included in that aspect but I give her time to come to terms with it.

"I suspect Federico as the ring leader but I don't have enough dirt on him" She says, finally. And I smirk.

"You just have to dig deeper."