ElenaThat night, Alessandro told the maids to prepare me. He was going to consummate our marriage.My heart dropped into my stomach. I was both scared and mad at the same time, the anger just kept rising and rising until I thought I might burst. But I couldn't do anything. I was trapped in this room, in this house, in this life that had been forced upon me. Every time I thought I had hit rock bottom, the floor opened up and I fell further.The maids came. There were three of them, their faces blank and professional. They moved around me like I was a doll, positioning me, arranging me, preparing me for what was to come. They did not speak to me. They did not look me in the eye. They just worked, their hands efficient and impersonal.They dressed me in a beautiful long red robe. It was made of silk, soft and flowing, and it fell to my ankles. It was the color of blood, the color of passion, the color of everything I did not feel. But underneath it, they put something else. A very light
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