They gave me a brass key with my name on it.
The Italian billionaire who handed it over had been reading every word I wrote for six years—and funding my career for four of them without ever telling me.
I came to Lake Como to investigate a story about anonymous patronage.
Instead, I walked straight into the man behind it.
Tommaso Castellani. Old money, impossible composure, and a family that runs like a war conducted in linen and wisteria.
A wedding no one can control.
An aunt who sees everything.
A great-uncle who proposed to me on day two with a diamond older than most countries.
And Tommaso himself—watching me from across every room with the attention of a man who has been waiting a very long time to be looked at directly.
He says I can write whatever I want.
Even about him.
But the article that could make my career will name him, expose him, and cost him everything he's spent a decade building.
I'm starting to think the story I came to Italy to uncover is actually my own.
And the man I'm falling for may have been writing himself into it from the very beginning.
Genre: Romance
The Italian billionaire who handed it over had been reading every word I wrote for six years—and funding my career for four of them without ever telling me.
I came to Lake Como to investigate a story about anonymous patronage.
Instead, I walked straight into the man behind it.
Tommaso Castellani. Old money, impossible composure, and a family that runs like a war conducted in linen and wisteria.
A wedding no one can control.
An aunt who sees everything.
A great-uncle who proposed to me on day two with a diamond older than most countries.
And Tommaso himself—watching me from across every room with the attention of a man who has been waiting a very long time to be looked at directly.
He says I can write whatever I want.
Even about him.
But the article that could make my career will name him, expose him, and cost him everything he's spent a decade building.
I'm starting to think the story I came to Italy to uncover is actually my own.
And the man I'm falling for may have been writing himself into it from the very beginning.
Genre: Romance
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