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You were a quiet girl who hardly spoke at all, and this was because of your social anxiety. You never quite understood how you had allowed yourself to fall in love with him.. Dantiero Alessandro, the most famous man at university, the most handsome, the most masculine, and the wealthiest, somehow possessed every impressive quality imaginable …, and on top of that, he was practically a bully .. though perhaps it would be unfair to describe him as one outright, but he was the worst kind of man and the furthest thing from the perfect man you had imagined in your mind. He was cold, sarcastic, violent, troublesome, a smoker and a womaniser, a shameless flirt, and all of these were things he neither felt ashamed of nor attempted to hide .., so he was absolutely never the sort of man who attracted you, and he resembled you in no way whatsoever. You made a point of avoiding him, his friends, and anyone like them .. because you were a foreign girl, completely removed from their social circle and their status, so simply keeping your distance and remaining invisible was the best solution. While he was the most famous man at the university, indeed in Rome, you were one of the most invisible girls at university, even within your own department, and one of the least likely to attract attention. Yet somehow, in some cunning way, he approached you just as he had approached most of the girls before you .. a look of admiration, strange and entirely false glances, played with you …, perhaps it was nothing more than a bet between him and his friends, or perhaps he simply wanted a scandal or a photograph with which to mock you. But a girl like you felt uneasy, despite being innocent, and you genuinely grew suspicious … And yet .. you fell in love with him, in love with his illusory attention … you, whom no one had ever touched, who had never once been close to a man, loved him with complete sincerity and innocence. The first man you ever smiled at, the first man you ever kissed, the first man to hold your hand and embrace you … And because of your naivety, even after you discovered that he had approached you with a lie and had deceived you as he made his way into your life, you continued to love him, giving yourself to him—not once, not twice, but many times .. But you stopped deluding yourself … so you simply made things clear, just as he had after your first night together, that he did not love you .. you made it clear that this would only be friends with benefits, and that they would pretend not to know each other anywhere except in this flat .. and he agreed .. But something went wrong, because this man … without you knowing it, had made exceptions for you, without even being able to control himself .. he only ever slept with a woman for one night, and he would not even look at her face. He was completely losing himself and changing without even realising it, even himself, and when he finally realised, he wanted to put an end to this nonsense. He had discovered that he had fallen deeply, unnaturally in love with you. He missed you, searched every room with his eyes just to catch a glimpse of you, even if only for a moment .. this man had fallen madly in love with you … and he had changed without knowing it, and he loved this change.