Chapter 40

• When I left my room to go down to the dining room, my feet bumped against something or rather someone, my eyes ran over the beautiful flower dress I was visiting, Clara, my brother and Claudio's daughter, who was sitting on the floor, her face was between her hands, she looked bored... ....
• "Clara, why are you sitting on the floor?" I called to her, she heard my voice, looked up with a big smile and stood up.
• "Uncle Gabriel told me where your room was, he said I could wait for you downstairs, but he was afraid it was too far away from Daddy and me." For a seven-year-old, the little girl could say things that made my heart ache. "Are you going away?"