Chapter 23
“What happened? Did she dump you last minute to marry someone else?” Grace felt her pulse quicken as she lashed out with a biting remark, attempting to cloak her own rising panic. But her attempt at sarcasm seemed to strike a nerve she hadn't anticipated. Alessandro's face flushed with a mix of embarrassment and anger, and Grace's stomach twisted in knots.
“Oh! God, she really dumped you for your brother!” She exclaimed in half disbelief.
"It's a little more complex than that," he admitted, his voice strained with emotion.
"Wh-what do you mean?" she managed to stammer out, her voice barely above a whisper.
A heavy silence hung in the air, broken only by the sound of their own ragged breathing. Alessandro's gaze bore into her, his eyes deliberately empty of any emotion. "Be
