rine'
wer lip as I paced the large
wall clock and exhaled h
ne in the evening and Ales
ne spoke from behind me,
hold, Alice, grimaced as s
any pr
igerator?" She asked, and my heart c
dro was really going to be abs
age anniversary and according to what I read on a website some
by preparing a variety of di
lled his grandmother because he usually ate there, and
vens bless her heart
the core, Madam Anita loved me like her own a
er effort, her reproache
ed the sour relationship
med was HER place after Madam Anita gave him an earful when she found out that his
tay, instead of leaving him after find
y the most idiot
o remain married and had decided to keep
passed, still believed that my husband would change his
voice yanked me back to the
re saying?" I a
gerator to prevent them from going bad," She said.
tears, I inhaled sharply. "Just g
th you," She said,
ave been able to prepare a platter of dishes if you weren't there with m
nly prepared the ingredients but
r out of the sitting room toward the stairs
" She still seemed reluctant
ight,
e climbed the sta
maids probably thought I w
d almost every one of min
which was the most e
le weeping for him to stay and never leave me for his fi
r who relied on he
because he was the first man
t I had spent in an orphanage, no
was an
ld me, they had found me in a box without clothes whe
cal school while he was training to
introduced us during
ome days later and subsequently, a
nue to regret until the day I died, was dropping out o
company had been established in Americ
t he would ever move back
al school in a heartbeat, with the assurance that I could ea
overed that I couldn't transfer to any medical school in America as their
asked me to be his wife and I happily agree
e the start of misery, I would have neve
ching drifted into my ears an
stormed into the house, looking
roaked, and he scoffed before f
ed up the envelope and g
is t
gn it before tomorrow ends and le
I kept my gaze rooted to the floo
tions. Just sign the damn papers and lea
he dining table, packed all the dishes I had prepared, and pl
my bedroom with a myriad of
ruly do
ld I go f
ably worsen his temper and cause him t
that because I had
k account and less than $50
d up, Alessandro started s
sted him and that seeing my face w
cated and had shared my bed, for t
r than I had ever seen him and
wrong to have se
hes, I stepped into the b
ro sitting on the bed, with an eerie grin plaste
mered, fidgeting with th
see me?" He scoffed. "Have you
at was h
ho hurled an envelope conta
I hallu
and," I stuttered
," He spat. "Come
elieve my ea
ething
ssandro act
s," He gr
what he meant by that,