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Natalia rolls her eyes at my snappiness as she starts to read the letter.
Dear Natalia,
I’m not sure if you will ever read this letter. I wouldn’t blame you if you never did especially after all the failed attempts that you made to come see me during those dark days. I appreciated it more than you could ever know even if I never showed it. Survival mode kicked in, and I guess the stubborn fool that I am wasn’t prepared to relent for anyone. I thought I needed to be the person to hold my family’s world together at the expense of my own.
I owe you an explanation so that you can move on and that isn’t my ego speaking, even though we both know how BIG it is. It’s so you know that you didn’t do anything wrong in those moments that you tried. You need to know that.
Unfortunately, I haven’t been honest with you from the start, and I think once you know the truth, anything you think you feel for me will vanish. What happened in Vegas was planned.
Natalia looks up, and those blue eyes narrow on me. I try to swallow, but it’s like sandpaper in my mouth.
When I saw you out at the club glaring at me and my friends, the idea formed in my mind. I hated everything you represented in that moment, that you were the only thing standing in the way of my father being proud of me. You were going to be collateral damage in this messed-up world my father had created. I needed this win so desperately to prove my father wrong that all sense and logic flew out the window.
A single tear falls down Natalia’s cheek as she reads those words. My hands tighten beside me because all I want to do is take her in my arms and tell her how much of a fool I am.
Then you went and fucking kissed me in the club. And I wanted to keep kissing you and doing all the things you were whispering to me to do. In that moment, I didn’t want to be Alessandro Conti anymore. I wanted to be some random person in Vegas having fun with a beautiful woman. So, I did. Even though I could never get rid of that devil on my shoulder who reminded me that while having fun, I still needed to win. I tried to drown out the fucking devil with shots, and it worked for the most part, we got black-out drunk. Yet somehow, we still ended up getting married which was my diabolical plan from the beginning. Guess I couldn’t escape the devil no matter how hard I tried.
It was a shock waking up in bed with you in Vegas the next morning, but I’ll never forget the image of you screaming at me while being butt-ass naked.
You looked so hot.
Natalia looks up at me and raises a brow.
I’d forgotten about my plan in the morning till Nico told me our wedding photos were on the internet, and then the entire plan came back to me. I couldn’t believe I’d accomplished it. Couldn’t believe you married me.
I thought when we got back to Roma that you would fold.
But I hadn’t counted on you.
Fucking Natalia Fiorenzo.
Natalia smiles at that part of the letter. Fuck she is beautiful, radiant. Actually, she looks so good, I don’t think she’s been back at home in Roma pining for me. My stomach sinks at that thought. When a woman glows up, she’s done with you.
You became a force to be reckoned with. I didn’t think you had it in you to fight me. Honestly, I thought you would cry to your father, and being the loving father that he was, he would pull out of the deal to save you.
And I would win.
I was wrong.
Dead wrong.
You then fucked up my world by calling my bluff and blowing my carefully constructed plan and life up in smoke.
That was the moment I knew I fell in love with you.
You were fearless, stubborn, feisty, and annoying, but the fact you were fighting back was the hottest thing a woman has ever done for me.
Then Paris happened.
That moment you begged for me to help you was my undoing, Natalia. I knew that what I was doing was wrong, but you were so far under my skin by then that I needed my fix. I was already addicted. I needed to know if what I felt with you in Vegas was just the alcohol or if it was real.
It was real.
And that scared the absolute shit out of me.
I didn’t know things were about to change so much between us.
You flipped the script on me again and forced my hand by moving in with me. I was equal parts impressed, annoyed, and shit scared.
