Xavier's POV
There was something particularly disgusting about the fact that Ricco Oscillius had the audacity to approach me at all. Let alone at my cabin on a cruise ship, completely unannounced.
We weren't anything akin to friends, there was no alliance between us.
Still, I knew why he was stalking me.
It bothered me, though, that he would take such extreme measures to gain my attention.
In the middle of his pretending that this was all coincidental, that it was funny we might end up on the exact same cruise ship, I asked, "Is your father aware of your hobbies?"
Ricco came of age this year.
That made him four years older than me.
Perhaps our age difference made him bold.
"It was a surprise that you'd brought a maid on vacation with you," Ricco pressed. "Is there not enough onb
