Bianca What was up with this guy? He asked me up here to talk, and so far he’d done anything but. He’d offered to cook, but I knew the only thing he drank on a regular basis was his smoothies. Something Carlo told me Alessandro drank on a regular basis. “You sure you don’t want a drink?” he asked for the third time in the space of the fifteen minutes we’d been here. “No. Why did you ask me here?” I could tell I had touched a nerve as he sank down on the sofa. I looked around, realizing I’d never really sat in the living room, not like this. The first time I came here, I was swept into Carlo’s room, as he only had one thing on his mind. Not just him, but me too. I couldn’t think of what to say to Alessandro, and I wasn’t good at small talk. He nodded his head and said, “There’s no

