ARIA

Emma drags me through a service door, her arm locked around my waist with a surprising strength.

"You ruined everything," she hisses in my ear, her breath hot. "Everything, Aria. My life, my future, my family. All because you couldn't just share the money like a normal person. It is not like you had a use for it."

I try to speak, but her hand is still clamped over my mouth. My clutch purse, with the panic button is lying somewhere on the ballroom floor. But the bracelet Dante ...