Chapter 60

It's already dark, the snow is falling through the window covering the street, and the intense cold outside prevents me from wanting to go out.

Today is Christmas Eve, but the truth is that this day feels so horrible that the only thing I wish is for it to be over already.

These days my mind has been a mess, I have thought about him more than ever despite what has happened. Even though for seven days now, he hasn't called or written to me again, although to be honest, it's the first thing I've thanked him for after everything that happened.

I am grateful to him after all that I have suffered.

I knew the moment I looked at him that this was the end of us, that night everything died except the memories.

There is no more room for Alessandro Lombardi in my life.

"Claudia, daughter, come down!" my mother's voice pulls me out of my thoughts.

"I'm coming," I exclaim, but I highly doubt she heard me.

I slip on my kitten slippers, ones I wore when I was in high school, and walk out of my room.