title: Forever Rome
author: Sahin, Brittney
description: **Now titled -
   The Story of Us
   - new edition now a/v.
  
  Three weeks in Rome for work?
  Great.
  Three weeks in Rome at the start of the American football season?
  No way.
  My editor-in-chief didn't seem to care about my opinion and sent me anyway, and I found myself in an unexpected mess - like I broke my cardinal-rule-kind-of-mess:
  never fall for a player.
  He was an athlete.
  An Italian superstar.
  A Casanova.
  Those were three strikes in my book.
  But I kissed him!
  The
  Marco Valenti. In all fairness, I didn't know who he was at the time, but still, I was there to write his story . . . and then he shocked the world by announcing his retirement the very next day. (That wasn't my fault, by the way. I swear.)
  The mysterious Italian was going to get me into so much trouble - including breaking my heart.