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MayaOnce I left the restrooms I wandered around the mall for a bit. I needed to think. I went into a shop and pretended to look through a rack of clothing. I felt eerily calm. I called Sergio and told him to meet me outside the mall.The air outside was frigid, but I didn’t feel it. Inside the car, I wrote out a long text. Then I closed my phone and looked out of the car. When we reached Torrington Hall, I came out of my daze and began to look around the snow. covered grounds. My hand touched the cold glass of the window.“I will miss you,” I whispered, as the car drove up the long, tree lined driveway toward the house.I knew Luca would not be back until dinnertime so I got into the house and was about to head straight up to my room when my name was called.“Maya.”My heart nearly stopped. I turned around and was able to breathe easier when I saw it was just one of his other men.The echo in the foyer had made his voice sound almost identical to Luca’s“Boss wants you in his study.”

MayaI was happy in the greenhouse with John and I spoke to my father every day, but as the day turned into night I found myself alone and missing Luca. I invited Katie to come and stay a night with me and she did. She still couldn’t believe I was married to Luca, but once she had got over the shock of Torrington Hall, we settled down to a girly night, ordered pizza, and sat watching rom coms with masks on our faces. But the next day she was gone.On the third night I was sitting reading a book in the Blue room, when Melania walked in.“Would you like anything else before I retire, Madam?” No matter how many times I reminded her, she always went back to calling me Madam and now I was resigned to the fact that it was what felt most comfortable to her. She couldn’t see me as anything else but the mistress of the house and her superior.I shook my head. “No. I think I’m fine.”“Goodnight then. I’ll see you in the morning.”“Actually, don’t go yet, Melania. Come and have a little drink wi

Maya I so slept much better than I expected and by the time I woke up the following day, it was already late morning. I couldn’t believe how tired I was. I was never usually this tired. Ever. Luca was no longer around.But when I tried to get up the world spun around me and I fell back onto the bed. The worrying moment passed quickly, but why did I feel so weak and unbalanced? Perhaps it was hunger? I could only remember eating small bites and portions over the last several days, so the first thing on my agenda was a huge breakfast.Now that I realized it, I was so wiped out I couldn’t even properly recall how I’d been brought up to this room. I looked at my ring. I took my phone out and took a picture of it, then I sent the picture to Katie.Her reply was instantaneous and full of emojis and gifs of shocked cats falling over.WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Half asleep but will call you in a few hours. Get ready to tell all.I calculated the time difference and realized it was four in the morning

LucaI did it again.I walked out of our bedroom wanting to smash everything in sight. All kinds of emotions churned in my gut.I trusted her. I let my guard down and trusted her. I actually believed the fantasy she had weaved. What a fool I was. Oncewas not enough for me.I have to go and make the same damn mistake again. I trusted another of her species. Heartless liars all of them.They are beautiful to look at but they are poison. They use their bodies to lure hapless men into their snares.Beautiful liar.I strode down the corridor and ran quickly down the stairs. I could feel my blood roaring in my ears as I went into thelibrary. My father was sitting on an armchair smoking his pipe and playing a game of chess with himself. His old dog,Punto, was curled up in his lap. The dog was almost twenty now. When I was growing up, I sometimes thought he lovedthe dog more than he did his own family.He looked up at me curiously.“Something has come up. I’m leaving tonight, ” I said.Fo

MayaMelania continued with her story. “But when the baby was born was when things really took a turn for the worse. She had mistakenly thought that it was her pregnant body that he did not want and once she had given birth to the baby he would start to want her again. The opposite happened. He completely lost interest in her and fell in love with the baby instead. I had never before and never since seen a man love a child the way he did. He loved that child more than he loved himself. He would have walked into fire for his son. Actually, there is nothing he would not have done for that boy.“And Alessa, she simply grew more and more bitter. She was jealous of her own son. He was such a good child, but one time I came into his room and I saw her pinching him for no reason at all. I was so shocked I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t want to tell on her, but I knew the child had to be protected and most of its care entrusted to another person so I advised the master to get a nanny.“Onc