Alessandro's POV“I’ve never done this before.”Those words echoed in my head like a slow, haunting bell. I’ve never done this before.I walked down the hallway of my mansion, footsteps cracking against the marble floors. Luka followed quietly behind me, he always did, but I could feel his gaze fixed on me, heavy, like he was trying to read the chaos unraveling behind my silence.The truth was, I didn’t even know what was going through my own head.The moment she’d said those words, something shifted inside of me, inside of my whole being.I couldn’t stop replaying it.A virgin? Rue?It didn’t make sense. She was stubborn, fierce, and defiant, like a woman who would stare death down just to prove a point. Women like her didn’t come untouched. They came scarred, hardened, and fire-forged.But she had looked at me when she said it. Looked at me dead in the eye. There was no trembling voice, none of those manipulative softness.Just a blunt, unwavering truth. Delivered with more weight t
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