When Alessandro woke the next morning, his head was still groggy.However, the study was spotless, and it confused him so much that he couldn't help but wonder whether everything from last night had only been a dream.He tightened his grip on the diary, and something inside him stirred.Before he met Serafina, he had been nothing more than a pawn in his own family's game. His parents' endless expectations and Vittorio's harsh demands had been his entire world.It was Serafina's diary that showed him there could be another kind of life.The first time he took her to recreate what she had written, they went to Lake Baxter, and they followed the diary step by step until they built a small wooden cabin together.In those moments, he felt true happiness, and for once, he felt like a living person.After that, it was almost instinct. Alessandro memorized Serafina's likes and dislikes until he knew them by heart, sometimes even better than she did.When Serafina finally accepted him,
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