Present Time Eliana was getting on his last nerves as she sat on the cold tile floor. He had taken her to his room, where she would be under his strict supervision, but that had backfired on him. Tears flowed down her face, her cheeks tinged red. She kept asking for Giulio and if he was okay, which he was, but Cesare wouldn’t tell her. He would use it to his advantage. He stepped towards her in a desperate act to lift her back onto the bed, but Eliana shrieked. “Don’t touch me!” She heaved, the tears uncontrollable, and wrapped her hands around herself. She recoiled into the small table behind her. She was retreating into her head, and he wouldn’t let her. She was going to get lost. He knelt down close to her, raking his shaky hand through his shaggy hair before dropping it onto the floor, feeling the instant coldness against his palm. “Baby, please stand up. Can you—” “Giulio? What about Giulio? Tell me, Cesare!” Her voice broke, and he felt his damn heart breaking too, s
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