Act 9: King's Gambit - Chapter 2

Sienna

I sit on the once familiar bed and draw my knees closer to my chest. Never in a million years did I think that I would feel this hopeless again; trapped in my own home by my husband like some prisoner. That Sienna died a long time ago, and now she seems to have returned.

Dante hasn’t been back since he brought me here, and I didn’t hear him lock the door, but I am still too apprehensive to leave this bedroom. There are a lot of memories here, some that are threatening to choke me with their traces of Daniella, but I push them down.

Hopefully, I don’t snap soon.

A movement at the bedroom door gets my attention, and I jump up, fully expecting Dante to come back after what happened this afternoon. What I didn’t expect was Sylvana and Serena to be standing at my door with Sylvana holding a tray of food.

“Seems like deja vu, just flipped around,” I say, recalling that I did the same to them when they were taken by Dario and Nico.

They’re both wearing sheepish smiles as they approac