Chapter Nine

CHAPTER NINE

ELENA

All day I haven't come across Maria. She always comes into the kitchen first thing in the morning to instruct the chefs on what to prepare for the day and to take coffee up to Don Luciano's room and also checks in on me as she has someone who grew attached to me. She has become the proper mother that I never had. I was unsettled about the fact that I hadn't seen him almost all day so I asked the chief chef about Maria and that was when he mentioned that Maria was feeling unwell that's why she couldn't come into the kitchen today.I requested that the chief chef give me permission to prepare some porridge for her and a few medications to take up to her room. He granted me the permission that I sought.I happily prepared porridge and took some medication to her room which is located at the right wing of the mansion. I knocked and heard a faint "Come in"I went in to find Maria weak and coughing on her bed. I sat her up and hugged her. "Why didn't you ask someone to info