ONLY ONCE

ew it, we were introduced to the Mayor's wife and sittin

performance started up. My head was throbbing and the music was grating against some

e were so close to the stage but I wasn't impr

aring, something immediately c

skin. The lights flashed and she moved with impossible fluidity and grace to the trill of the music. I didn't care about ba

written across her face as her petite frame flew over the stage. Blue eyes as clear and pale as crystals glistened like sh

that this is what It felt to witness an angel come down from hea

ing and it was time for Odette to die, I could have sworn the tears on her cheeks were real. My hand itched to swipe them away , to pee

to my ear when he broke conversation with the mayor. I ten

hrugged and let a short l

eing her dance like that makes a man dr

e as the performers were bowing and the audie

things y

I want to have her. I knew righ

who has connection to New York ballet who will be there as well", I sank back and absorbed what Nicholas was telling me. If he had a connect

na as the crimson curtains swept over the stage and blocked her from m

vely, whispering so the mayor and his wife didn't over hear. "If she's on the menu? It's an intriguing offer. More than intrigued", l retorted. There

d the grin on his face was wicked. The mayor and his wife were enamored with my uncle and insisted we ride with the

lue eyes crying as she fell to the stage in a mock death. Her lithe body was so flexible and each movement was elega

't pay to have her. The cost didn't matter if those full lips were at my disposal. It got increasin

n the city who knew about it. Nicholas told me the performers took a while to arrive b

ntion on blowing away the mayor with as many extensive plans as he co

u a bal

to buy her for a