“So, tell me,” Fabrizio asked after I had successfully tucked the boys into the guest beds. “What is it that I can do for you, pretty lady?” He’d been pestering me all day, trying to secure the reason for why I had actually come across the world to stay with him. I thought by now he’d have seen the headlines, since everyone on the planet had access to them. My name and face—along with my children’s—were the household talking points of nations. I was a scandal. I was a fugitive of the law.
And I couldn’t help but revel in the drama.
I was living through my wildest fantasies, and it felt thrilling to be the center of the story.
Nestling into his chest as I laid against the long back of the sofa, I weighed the price of each word that I spoke. “Fabrizio,” I murmured, my fingers trailing th
