Alessandra Valderrama POV Zandro gave my hand a gentle squeeze of reassurance that made my heart swell. I had to be the luckiest girl on earth. I needed to tell him the full truth about my family. Our feelings for each other were growing by leaps and bounds each day and I was beginning to think that it wasn’t just lust, but that I was falling in love with him. So there had to be a point where I finally pulled the trigger and confessed, but the problem was that the longer I waited the harder it was going to be to confess everything. I just needed to ensure that he wasn’t going to bail the moment he found out who my family really was. “You know that I think you have a sharp and inquisitive mind. The sky is the limit for you here and I know that you’ll achieve anything you want regardless of what it is. And I’ll be there with you every step of the way. I promise. For as long as you’ll allow me to be.” My heart swelled. How could I have gotten so lucky as to have met him? That was one o

Alessandra POV His eyebrows rose so high when I told him about the double date that I was scared they would disappear up into his hairline. “You agreed to do what?” I put my hands up in front of me, giggling to myself over his overreaction. Maybe his office at lunchtime wasn’t the best time to tell him about this arranged date. “Just chill out. I had no choice. The girls had me backed into a corner and I had no choice but to agree to a double date.” Grabbing the edge of his desk, I perched myself up on the edge in front of him. Zandro leaned back in his chair his eyes drifting down the length of my body and then back up again. “I know what you’re doing, Miss Valderrama.” “What am I doing?” Kicking off my shoes, I placed my feet on either side of his hips on the chair and pulled the chair closer to me so he was between my legs. “You’re trying to distract me from this argument.” Jutting my lower lip out, I gave him my best pouty look. “We’re having an argument?” “You’re not

Alessandra Valderrama POV It had sucked not spending the previous weekend with Zandro, but I’d done my due diligence and went out with the guy that the girls had chosen for me and even attended more house meetings. It seemed to be enough to satisfy them - for now. I didn’t like walking this tightrope over my relationship with Zandro, but it was almost over. After being nearly caught in his office and one of the sorority girls seeing me with a mystery man, we decided it would be a good idea to be more careful, so we were meeting for our date at a bar close to an hour’s drive away from the campus. This was the third time meeting here and this was becoming our normal meet-up point which would ultimately end up in his apartment and in his bed. Looking down at my phone I grimaced looking at the price of the ePickMeUp ride to the bar, I was going to have to swallow my pride and perhaps hit Cenon up for some money if I kept burning through it like I was. College was proving to be much mor

Alessandra Valderrama PO “I’m sorry for… that,” I said as we closed the door of the suite that Alexander Valderrama had booked for us. Turning to face him, I looked up into his eyes praying he’d be open-minded about this. Alexander Oliver and Ashton both had rooms down the hallway, but as promised they’d booked us into the honeymoon suite. I was so damned upset over the whole invasion of our date that I could care less about the room. All I cared about were the thoughts that must be going through Zandro’s mind right now. “Alessandra, I don’t even know what that was!” There was anger in his tone as he glared down at me. “This makes no sense.” “I guess we should talk about it. And it will make sense then.” It was the last thing I wanted to do, but it was something that I needed to discuss with him that was way past due. Kicking off my shoes, I let my bare toes sink into the soft grey carpet. I’d almost forgotten what luxury living felt like after spending the past couple of months o

Alessandra Valderrama POVKnocking on the hotel room door of Ashton Rossini felt like I was knocking on the door of the devil himself. And in a lot of ways, it was, but I needed to protect Zandro and the career he cherished. Ashton was the only one I could think of who could ensure just that. The door swung open to reveal Ashton wearing only a pair of boxer briefs. “Well, little sister, isn’t this a pleasant surprise.” Keeping my gaze focused on his chest upwards, I pushed past him into the room. Taking a seat at the small two-person table next to the window I waited for him to close the door and join me. “I need your help.” “What can I do to help you? Need someone killed?” He chuckled as he closed the door and made his way across the room to join me. “No, I don’t need someone killed. I appreciate the offer though.” He grinned. Sitting down across from me he, clucked his tongue off the roof of his mouth as he stared at me. “So, what’s the big problem?” “I feel like an idiot even