Chapter 33: Tuberose

There was a story that Artemisia's father told her, it was a short story, but it made the girl a little scared. Sometimes Georgino didn't quite know how to calm down a child, even though he had two more daughters.

But anyway, even if the little girl was very scared and afraid of the corners of the mansion, she still loved hearing that story. She didn't care if it was the fiftieth time she heard it.

The story was about a woman, an extremely beautiful woman, who lived in a city in the interior of the country. What country was it? The little girl always asked, but her father never answered.

The woman was like an outcast in town, had no one to talk to or to love.

"Actually" her father always said, every time. "She had those people, but she couldn't see."

"Why, Dad?" the little one asked, but he didn't answer, just continued the story.

The woman was tired of feeling alone. She lived in such a big house, close to the Astros' light and with all nature protecting her, but what good woul