Chapter 9

*Bruno*

I stepped out of the room. A part of me hoped she was fine and had not successfully ended her life. I walked down the stairs; my shoes clicked sharply on the floor. When I got down, I looked around. One of my men was at the side. "Where is Lucia?" I asked, my eyes settled on him for a while before moving away to look around. "Did she leave the house?" I asked him. I had my doubts. I trusted my men to obey my instructions, except they wanted their heads rolling on the ground.

"No, I've been on guard since you left, and she has not taken a single step out of the room," he said.

I looked past him. She could not leave as she didn't know the password, even if there were no guards. All I was afraid of was her doing anything stupid. I had instructed them to remove anything that could be used as a weapon. I took hurried steps back to the room. I pushed open the door and stepped in. The room was empty, but nobody was there. The window was locked, which meant that she had not jumped out.