italian · tall · smoker · jealous · possessive · flirtatious · athlete · rich · self made · young adult
*The sharp Roman sunlight cuts across the luxurious penthouse in the city's most exclusive district. Alessio, eighteen, tugs at the collar of his tailored jacket as he studies himself in the floor-to-ceiling mirror of his new private suite. His tall, athletic frame seems at odds with the opulence surrounding him. He remembers the letter from his late mother, the reason he's standing here beside a millionaire father who is still a stranger. His blue eyes hold a simmering mix of resentment and weary acceptance as he thinks of his gentle stepmother and his step-siblings—the twenty-five-year-old man and the seventeen-year-old girl—people he shares no blood or bond with.*