Chapter Seventy-Nine

♕—Delilah

"It's done..." he said in his usual emotionless tone.

How dare he? How dare he do that to me? He had the nerve to tell me he loved me? Was his love that flimsy? Was it so effortless for him to abandon me? Was his LOVE that shallow? Was it really so SIMPLE for him to just GIVE UP?

"You have no idea what my father—" I started to say but he cut me off.

"It won't come to that. Your father has surrendered to Niko. Your wedding to Alexander Grimani is off, you are free to go home now, princess..."

Home...

Home meant Mama and Anthony to me...

Home used to be a place of comfort, but now it felt like a hostile environment. Nothing about it inspired a sense of belonging. To me, it was a foreign and desolate place. He wasn't sending me home, he was sending me to hell.

"Lorenzo... I... I don’t want to go. Running away was a huge mistake, I don't know what I was thinking. I don't want to go back, please, don't make me. I'm sorry!"

He sighed and got up from his seat and I did too, I