Chapter 50: Aunt Ain’t Ant

I SAT alone next to the coffins of my mother, father, sister, and Stephen, keeping watch over them. A day has passed since the ruckus inside the house, and I am now alone in the house guarding their casket.

No one dared to step inside our home except sir Carlo and Don Enrico Custodio with his bodyguards, but I know they will never step here again when they have nothing necessary or important to do.

My stomach grumbled with hunger, and my eyelids were about to close, so I pinched my arm hard. “It hurts!” I said as I stroked the portion of my body that had been pinched since it was red.

Only deafening silence engulfed the inside of the home until a doorbell chimed at the door, prompting me to get up from my seat and open the door for the person outside.

“Perhaps sir Carlo left something here at home?” I thought to myself as I approached the door. When I opened the door, my eyes