Chapter 48

• Dominic felt that it was slowly and tortuously annihilating him, something hurt in his chest and it blocked the air from entering his lungs. He couldn't speak, he couldn't think, what would he say? How would he explain himself? Wasn't it true that he only wanted her for one night in his bed? That had been the purpose since he met her at that party, right? To take her to bed and then discard her, like a disposable object. He had repeated it to himself so many times, he had expressed it to his friend Bruno thousands of times, who couldn't understand why hearing that now was killing him.
• She, in the face of his silence, felt even more disappointed. She couldn't stand in front of him any longer, because she felt that at any moment she would break down in tears and she didn't want him to see her like that. Her soul hurt deeply as if something was tearing it apart from the inside. She turned to leave, but he stopped her by the arm and turned her so that they were face to face again.
• "You have everything I haven't found in any other woman, Alessandra," he revealed with intensity and sincerity in his gaze.