Knight in Armani

"The number you're trying to reach is unavailable."

Eve hit the power button for the umpteenth time, feeling like puking and crying and screaming at the same time.

She had been trying her parents' number for over an hour now, but none of them was connecting.

Alessandro had placed a call to have her car driven out of the premises, and stopped at a restaurant where he'd had a reservation.

She didn't ask whom he had been supposed to meet, but she spent minutes staring at the food he had ordered, and lacking every appetite for it.

She had basically proved everything Alessandro thought of her, all for a lie.

Hair transplant, anti-aging procedure?

"I can order takeout for you." Alessandro had said to her in the restaurant, the only other words he had uttered since they left the hospital premises.

Surprisingly, she appreciated the silence.

Rather than pretend to sympathise with her when he didn't give a shit, he had simply kept mute and only spoken when he got a call.

Now, they were on th