Chapter 33 Santiago’s pov This was really not going well at all, I will admit that speaking to the press and claiming Valentina and Nicolás as mine was mostly to benefit me. I was hoping that I could wear her down if we were together all the time and having to put on an act. It hasn’t exactly gone the way I hoped it would, I was just that happy to have Giovanni and Sophia’s support that I ran with it and didn’t think it through. Now Valentina is unhappy with all of us and has managed to think of the many ways I scr.ewed up. I knew I could get a bit of backlash from some of my trysts, but I hadn’t even thought about Ruth since we didn’t even sleep together. I realise now that that was a huge mistake. Ruth, with all her obsessive behaviour, would totally use it against me. Valentina w