73. Emiliana

"What are you doing? Why aren't you getting ready?"

"I'm willing this night to be over already"

Dante raises his brow, leaning on the doorframe "How?"

"By sitting here and waiting for time to pass" I've already done my hair and makeup but getting into that dress is proving to be harder than I thought. Honestly, I don't want to ever sit with Gisella at the same table and pretend to be a family. She never even apologized.

"If we're late, your mother will give us hell"

Yeah, mama whose character seems to have taken a complete one-eighty. She calls every day to ask about my injury, even though it's almost healed. The doctor said I was lucky the bullet didn't hit any bones. Mama knows that but I guess she's worried. Or trying to distract me so I don't find out what it is they're hiding. I tried getting Angelo drunk at the Sunday dinner so it would loosen his tongue but no such luck. Papa trained him well. Even inebriated, he wouldn't open his mouth. Although, it was fun seeing all