ALEX POV
I didn't sleep that night. Worry gnawed through me as I tossed around in my bed.
Different thoughts whirled into my head as I tried to force myself to sleep.
It seemed futile.
After everything that had happened, I made sure that Alita had no idea where she was from. Now, something else tugged at the corner of my mind. It was about the man who claimed to be from Niccolò.
It just did not seem right to me.
As I laid in my bed, I couldn't ignore the pressing feeling that Vera now knew. It was quite obvious that she only wanted to see my reaction.
My head throbbed as I pushed myself to sit up on the bed. I thought of the time my mother was still alive.
"Don't contact, Maryam" She had warned me severely, "No one must know the gender of the child. Don't even tell anyone that
