Chapter 66

• Alessia
• The silence in the estate felt wrong. Still…yet uncomfortable. The halls that once echoed with faint laughter, clinking glasses, and Marco’s brisk footsteps now felt like the interior of a tomb. I had snuck out again, of course.
• From the moment I stepped foot back inside, everything had shifted. The guards watched me differently, like I was something fragile and dangerous all at once. It was as if they were all waiting for me to arrive. I was shown to my room like a child being punished.