Alexander:
I didn’t tell her where we were going.
I only told her to dress for the evening.
Alessia watched me the entire time she was getting ready, suspicion and amusement flickering in her eyes. She had learned that when I went quiet, I was either planning something dangerous… or something sentimental.
Tonight, it was the second.
When we arrived at the hotel near the edge of the territory, she slowed.
Not because she didn’t recognize it.
Because she did.
I stepped ahead of her and opened the door to the suite.
The same one.
The same room where we had spent our first night together.
The night that had started as tension and defiance… and ended as something neither of us had expected.
She stepped inside slowly, her fingers brushing the edge of the table as she took it in.
“Yo
