Ninth Betrayal: Our Pact Ends Here
"Don Antonio, you promised you'd stay with me today, didn't you?"
She wrapped her arms around his, whining and pouting just like she always did, before launching into a list of complaints about Natalina.
In the past, Antonio would have silently allowed it whenever she made such comments. But today, something in him snapped, and he violently threw her hand off his arm.
Even he found his reaction strange, too. He couldn't bear hearing anyone speak ill of Natalina. Hearing those words filled him with an unbearable, suffocating irritation.
As he looked at Aurora standing before him, Natalina's face flashed across his mind. He was suddenly consumed by a desperate, frantic urge to see Natalina and