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All he knew about it was that it broke hearts and destroyed people It had destroyed his mother and Alessandra’s father

He wouldn’t kno to love or show love if he tried All he kneas how to make money A woman like Alessandra deserved so h He needed to put emotional distance between them too Now Before he hurt her

If he allowed their sexual relationship to develop, her feelings would likely develop too while his

He’d never had a proper relationship before Never He had no idea how long it would take for boredo love to the one woe

If her feelings grew stronger whilst his decreased, the pain it would cause her would be immense

He had to nip it in the bud now For both their sakes

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHRISTIAN’S HOME WAS a pebblestone villa in a private enclave of Athens, set away froreen land, the villa itself was found byto Alessandra’s ot out of the car was private They could be anywhere They could be nowhere

The villa was beautiful, there was no denying that— picture perfect—but the silence was deafening Villa Mondelli had been much the same, the majority of her childhood spent in its splendid isolation She’d adored the infrequent trips to Milan Rocco would take her on when he was home from university—loved the noise, the s a s wheel where all the tiny co picture

They’d left the hotel after breakfast, waved off by their reht smile, forced jollity

On the drive to his ho on She’d tried hard to be sy about the importance that the situation be speedily resolved That did nothing to prevent the underlying resentment

She was used to workaholics She’d been raised by the various nannies her workaholic grandfather had employed for her Her brother was of an identical mould