The stranger asked me to pretend to be asleep on his shoulder during the flight… but when we landed I discovered he was the most powerful businessman in Mexico and that my ex-husband was already looking for me.

Valeria.

“Can I ask you for a strange favor?”

She frowned.

“What kind of favor?”

Alejandro looked discreetly toward the aisle, then toward the young man’s phone.

“Could you pretend to fall asleep on my shoulder?”

Valeria nearly laughed out loud.

“What?”

“I know it sounds odd,” he said quietly. “But those people are trying to record me. If they think we’re continue reading …