Forget

Ginevra shrugged and rolled onto her back. “Ask him.”

“What?”

“Ask him. Bastian said Valerio is not one to shy away from any conversation. If you want to know something, ask him. Ask him how it was he was thinking of you as his wife from the time you were an infant.”

“I guess.”

“I know he’s not what you wanted, Amalia. If there was a way out of this, I’d be encouraging you to take it, but I don’t