Chapter forty one

When I left my room to go down to the dining room, my feet bumped against something or rather someone, my eyes ran over the beautiful flower dress I was visiting, Clara, my brother and Claudio's daughter, who was sitting on the floor, her face was between her hands, she looked bored... ....

"Clara, why are you sitting on the floor?" I called to her, she heard my voice, looked up with a big smile and stood up.

"Uncle Gabriel told me where your room was, he said I could wait for you downstairs, but he was afraid it was too far away from Daddy and me." For a seven-year-old, the little girl could say things that made my heart ache. "Are you going away?"

"No, I'm home, honey, I can't go anywhere."

"Then you'll come down and send us away."

"Clara." I call her, annoyed by her persistent question.

"I'm not going to throw you out of the house, who said that?"

"Daddy said if you don't accept Daddy the way he is, we have to leave this house without dinner."

"Daddy?"

"Yes, I call my father Claudi