Chapter Fifty

Maria.

I am still trying to absorb what Alesso had said last night.

He showed me around the west wing of the mansion this afternoon but my mind was in a

different place.

Did he mean what he said to me or was it just drunk talk?

It's only been four months since our marriage but you never know. To be fair, I have feelings for him and would like to tell him that I love him but I am scared to confess, I mean who isn't?

Scared to be taking it too fast or being rejected.

My mind is swirling with these thoughts as we walked through the corridors.

Alesso didn't hold back at this. He is showing me the storage room for their illegal stuff like drugs, guns, money, you know the usual stuff.

I was not allowed to enter in and so we were

looking through a glass window.

"So, all this life sentence worth shit

has been here all this time?" I look at

him wide-eyed.

We can practically be arrested for life by the number of drugs here are.

"Well not always. They do get transported here and there." He ga