Chapter 108

It never dawned on me that Alexi was short for something. I never questioned it, and now I hear someone call him that it does not fit. It’s such an old man’s name for someone as sexy as Alexi. I don’t like it on him one bit. Sexy Alexi is a far better title with a ring to it.

When the man steps away, he swoops on me, and I get a helping of wet kisses on each side of my face, disturbingly so, and I try not to cringe as he rambles away in Italian chatter as though I can understand it. I don’t react, just smile politely and take the weird greeting before discreetly patting my face with a napkin when he turns his attention back to my date.

“This is Camilla,” Alexi gestures towards me, smiling brightly and looking a little too Gino, before answering the man in fluent Italian again, faultlessly. I find myself gazing at him intensely. There is something hot about Alexi speaking his family’s native tongue fluently. If you didn’t know any better, you would think he was a purebred