Lily's tale

“ What’s this I hear about Lily’s mother pointing a gun to your face? “ Nikolai asked, as anger flashed in his features. The guards must have told him what I didn’t see the need to tell him. Judging from the look he was giving me, he was disappointed by my actions.

“ Yeah, but she didn’t shoot. Your guards saved me. “ I said as I took off my heels and coat. We were staying at a hotel before we went back to Italy.

To be honest, I dreaded going back there because I knew that death hung in the air. Not just any death, but the death of a woman I loved dearly.

“ Why didn’t you tell me this? “ He asked and I saw that he was getting angrier by the second.

“ Because she is a woman who is coming from a place of hurt. She was looking for someone to blame and that person just so happened to be me. I understand. “ I defended for Lily’s sake.

Despite all that her mother had put her through, it was no secret that she loved her mother dearly. She always called her hoping that one day Claire woul