Dilara

Chapter 85:

Dilara's POV:
'Could you zip up my dress please,' I say to Amira.

'Yeah of course,' she replies.

She zips me up and I apply some mascara to my eyes.

Alora comes to me, holding the red box.

She carefully puts the pin in front of my bun. It matches my dress amazingly.

She turns around and hands me a gold mask with blue glitter on it. She ties it to my face and I turn around to her.

'You look beautiful.' She says.

'Thank you,' I reply.

Zoya puts on her heels and we make our way downstairs.

Everyone's waiting for us in the lobby.

'Here are your earpieces,' Amira says.

She opens up a smaller case.

'This ones yours,' she hands me a golden one that looks like ear Jewellery, it has butterflies that twist along my ear.

It's perfectly disguised.

She hands out the rest and I put mine in.

'If any of you need help you speak into the earpiece.' Vittoria says. 'Now let's go.'

'Time for action,' Terzo says.

Him, Lorenzo, and Alora are dressed like waiters, with red suits and black gloves.

Alessandro and Xuan are dressed in black suits and look like rich guests.

Xuan lightly squeezes my arm.

'Your going to do amazingly.' He whispers. 'I'll be right around the corner if you need me.'

'Thank you Xuan,' I reply, turning to smile at him.

I need all the support I can get.

We all walk out of the hotel and make our way across the street, to the ballroom.

This is getting really real, really quickly.

We make sure to leave space in between each other before walking in.

The place of filled with security.

There's a single long red carpet and a walk through metal detector.

A couple walk in before me and they're free to go. I make eye contact with Jake and quickly look away.

I walk through the metal detector and it starts beeping loudly. I try not to cringe at the sound and walk with my head high.

One of the security men pulls me over to the side and gets out the metal detector wand.

He puts it over my face and it beeps.

'Metal hair pins.' I reply. 'And these earrings are authentic gold.'

I make sure to add a tone of annoyance when I speak.

He keeps on going down my body when it beeps at my chest.

He glares at me.

I suck in a breath and feel the blade of my dagger against my ribs.

'Why are you look at me like that?' I snap. 'Have you never heard of a wired bra, honestly.'

He goes even lower and it beeps by my thighs.

'Surely your not expecting this fine lady to lift up her skirt so you can check her,' a voice says.

I don't have to turn around to know that it's Xuan speaking.