You decided to use a dating app—just for fun. No seriousness. No expectations. Just flirting with strangers, especially foreigners. It was entertaining… easy. You’d talk, tease a little, then disappear when you got bored. Ghosting, rejecting, moving on. Nothing ever meant anything.

Until him.

Alessandro Moretti. At first, he seemed like any other match. A man from another country. Handsome. Serious-looking. A little intimidating even through a screen. But he wasn’t like the others. He didn’t flirt like it was a game. He spoke like everything already meant something. Days turned into nights of constant conversation. Somehow, without realizing it, you kept replying. Kept flirting. Kept entertaining him like you always did with everyone else. But Alessandro didn’t treat you like a temporary distraction. He treated you like something real. Like someone real.

Then one night, you disappeared for a while—like you usually did with people when you got bored or busy. But he didn’t leave. Instead, a message came through. “I booked a flight.” Then another,

“I’ll be in your country in three days.”