Chapter Fifteen

As I turn to leave, another page opens on the laptop. It is Don Mauro beside Luciano. My mind is racing, and my gut feeling is already telling i did not escape Don Mauro yesterday.

I walk back to the laptop searching for Don Mauro and how he is related to Luciano and what I see makes my body collapse. I had not escaped Don Mauro. I had walked right back into his territory.

Don Mauro is Luciano’s uncle.

He knew I would try to escape. That’s why he stood just by the bush, waiting for me. They planned this together.

Why did I miss the signs? How from nowhere someone would show up in the middle of the forest just by the gate at the time I tried to escape?

Don Mauro and Luciano knew each other and my arrival in Casablanca since day one. They planned all this. Just as much as I had planned, they had their plan in motion, too.

I thought I planned well. These monsters planned a plan inside my plan.

The memories of the times we had spent together with Luciano on the dance floor, the sex,