Chapter 15

• "Mr. Lombardo, is something wrong?" Alessandra pointed out with feigned concern, knowing how much she had embarrassed him. "You suddenly went quiet. Will you tell Vittorio what happened, or shall I tell him?" She added, to further embarrass him.
• He looked at her, annoyed and embarrassed at the same time, wishing the ground would swallow him up at that moment.
• "Well, since you have nothing else to tell me, I must go back inside. I'm sure my absence has been noticed," she spoke again, seeing that he remained silent. She turned on her heels and headed back, taking perhaps three steps before feeling tempted to say something else. "By the way, regarding your earlier question, sir, I don't kiss Vittorio like I did with you. Actually, what we have is... different," she said, raising an eyebrow and giving a mischievous smile so that the magnate would interpret it differently. But, as Vittorio had told her once, leaving him always in uncertainty was something his brother could not tolerate.