Chapter 14
Coming to the hotel to the stupid exclusive bar upstairs to meet Stefano was not Chelsea’s idea. Her mother had forced her to call and get as much information on the Duc of Modena from her old friend. Stefano’s insistence they meet now, must have been so she’d walk past Alex.
Tomorrow she’d figure out how to tell Alex what happened, but for now, she was stuck in the elevator, going up to the top floor with her mother as her chaperone, even though she was in her twenties.
None of this was good at all.
Chelsea held the railings behind her, sick at the shock on Alex’s face when he’d seen her just now. The elevator climbed.
Of course, Stefano and Manfredi were at this hotel. Hopefully Stefano was true to his word and this was just a one-on-one tete-a-tete. But Alex’s soulful ga
