8

ALESSANDRO

“So, tell me, son… Did you acquire her for Gulio or yourself?”

I pause in the middle of taking my cufflinks off and turn around to meet my aunt coolly mocking gaze. “Does it matter?” I have no idea how she sniffed out my interest in her , but I’m not surprised.

My aunt has always been able to read me better than anyone.

She leans against the doorframe of my room where I’m changing for dinner. “I guess I should’ve expected it. She’s pretty, isn’t she?”

“Very.” I deliberately turn my back to her. My aunt lives to get a rise out of me, but she’s not going to succeed tonight. Nor is she going to shame me into staying away from Lorena.

The girl intrigues me too much for that.

“I know she spent the entire night with you at the club.” she confirms and strolls deeper into my room and picks up my gun , the one I was just about to put on myself,