Chapter 58

"What do you mean?" I say in a breathy whisper.

"What you heard," she replies. "I don't know how he found out where I worked, but he came looking for me in my office today."

I feel a shiver run through me.

"Apparently, he already found out that you left Italy," she lets me know and at that moment it feels like my soul is going to leave my body and I can breathe less and less.

I recognize that feeling, I'm feeling it again. An anxiety attack is invading my body and I can't stop it.

"Clau, are you there?" she says, but I can't speak.

Time seems to have stopped, and I am standing in the middle of the sidewalk without reacting. The stormy moments hit me abruptly and I find it harder and harder to breathe.

"Young lady," I hear a voice say far away from me, "Young lady, are you all right?"

I hear this time closer, and at that my eyes manage with difficulty to focus on a lady standing in front of me.

"Can you hear me?" she asks, but I don't answer her.

I feel overwhelmed and all I want to do