"So, you're suggesting I marry my sister's man, now she's with my boyfriend?" Alice Dawsey never had any doubt she was the daughter her mother loved least. After all, Kendra Dawsey always made a point of saying this clearly. However, despite all the humiliation and cruelty coming from her mother and sister, she strives to build a life for herself and her beloved little daughter, Millicent. When Alice discovers that her boyfriend left her for her sister, Amber, and her mother destroys her prospects of future, she finds herself forced to marry the last man she expected. Massimo Bianchi has always had a difficult life, even after becoming the CEO of his family's business and the main candidate to marry Amber, uniting the two fortunes. However, after suffering an accident that left him confined to a wheelchair, he became a rude and bitter man, who will certainly make the life of any woman who marries him a living hell. So, of course, Kendra doesn't hesitate to replace her beloved Amber with someone as disposable as Alice. However, it is for another reason that Alice becomes Massimo's wife with her heart heavy. And not just because now the kind man she secretly fell in love with years ago seems to have turned into a reclusive monster. There is a secret that Alice plans to keep only to herself, no matter how much her and her daughter's presence on the Biachi Mansion seems to be, gradually, changing Massimo.
View MoreAlice had tossed and turned for so long in that bed that she couldn't tell what time it was, but it was certainly still night, as the sun seemed far from rising on the other side of the window. Again and again, Massimo's questions hammered in her mind, spreading not only fear throughout her body, but also choking her with guilt. In the darkness of her room, she could only pray that he would show mercy after seeing her emotional state and let the matter drop. Otherwise, she would have to face him again, with lies on the tip of her tongue, cold sweat covering her face and her dry throat...No longer able to bear the way her mind was torturing her, Alice abruptly stood up, not even caring when the blankets fell to the floor. Putting on her slippers, she left the room exactly as she was, in a nightgown that came down to her knees. The spring air had been getting i
“I wanted cotton candy too! And balloons, lots of balloons! Oh, and we could watch movies too!” Millie’s breath hitched a little, but that didn’t stop her from continuing to talk without stopping.“Okay, honey. I think Mr. Bianchi already understands everything you want for your birthday.” Alice laughed, finishing putting her baby's pajama shirt on “But, remember that the friends we are going to invite can only stay for two or three hours, so we have to choose carefully which games you want, so they don't be late coming home, okay?”"Okay!" Millie nodded solemnly, while Massimo, who had been by their side, close to the bed, came over with Hoppy in his hands, to hand it to her.“Don’t worry, Millie. Thea did me the favor of finding contact details for some p
As if the two were really in a bumper car, Massimo and Millie rolled away, the wheels of the chair tearing up part of the grass they passed. However, instead of getting angry with Millicent or scolding her, as Alice expected with that commotion, Massimo just... Laughed.In fact, he laughed, holding Millie tightly as the two of them went aimlessly everywhere, having fun with his daughter as if they were both on a roller coaster. Alice's heart missed a beat or two when the chair tilted a few times, lifting one of the pairs of side wheels off the floor, but she managed to hold back her concern until, answering her silent prayers, Massimo braked the wheelchair right in front of her, he and Millie still rolling around with laughter.“That was super fun!” Millie cheered, Massimo’s arms around her like a seat belt“Mommy, you have to run too!&rd
“If you don't want to have your legs hurting for a week, now's your time to get away.” Alice murmured to Thea, humorously, before speaking to her daughter again “I'm coming, darling... Oh.” She stopped, almost tripping over a piece of string lying on the grass “I guess the kite we made last week left this world a long time ago, huh?” Alice laughed under her breath, watching the race track that Millie had marked out using string and some popsicle sticks, in crooked lines, but still making her intention clear.“It’s a race track! Just like in the book!” her daughter announced, coming skipping along while Massimo followed closely behind her “So we can race! Hoppy will be the hare, because he is a rabbit!” She nodded, as if she had spent some time thinking about it “And we're going to be the turtles. But, everything will be fine, because t
“Look, Hoppy! They’re bubbles!” Millie’s happy scream made Alice smile, as she blew bubbles towards her daughter “Try to catch them!”“Oh, I forgot how much energy kids of her age have.” Thea murmured, standing next to Alice, stretching her spine “I miss when Josh was that age, but at the same time I don't. I get more tired having to chase a baby than I do after cleaning this house...”“One good thing is that she is using all her energy now to get a good night’s sleep.” Alice laughed, blowing a few more bubbles into the air as Millicent ran back and forth, her arms up as she tried to get Hoppy to reach for little clear balls. “And I need to make the most of these nights of rest because, the day before her birthday, she won’t even be able to stand still for a single moment
“Don’t worry, Mr. Bianchi.” Lucy's voice didn't change that much, but Alice knew her best friend well enough to know that she was trying very hard not to cry "I would never think that."“Uh… Millie? Why don’t you go with Massimo inside and start organizing a party with your dolls, just like we always played with Aunt Lucy?” Alice suggested, making her daughter instantly euphoric.“Come on, Massimo! You can help me prepare the tea party!” She walked over to him, seeming completely oblivious to his intentions of resting, especially when she placed Hoppy on his lap and darted off into the mansion alone, forcing him to follow her.“I... I confess that he seems friendlier than I imagined, after all those rumors.” Lucy murmured, even when Millie and Massim
“And now... The coin is here!” Millie screamed in excitement, not seeming to realize that everyone could see her remove the coin from inside her shirt sleeve, pretending that it had simply appeared behind Massimo’s ear “Abracadabra!”“Well, that was really... Impressive.” He smiled, even clapping his hands, while Millie bounced in place more than happy with her magic trick.“You are such a cute magician!” Alice welcomed her into a hug, when her baby came running to her “So, did Sesame Street teach you any more amazing magic tricks?”"No. But Big Bird said that tomorrow he will teach you how to make a toy chest out of a cardboard box.” Her daughter said, opening her mouth when Alice offered her a piece of apple “Tomorrow we'll be able to wa
What Massimo found when he left the room and went just a few meters down the corridor was not Thea hunting a mouse or doing her careful weekly cleaning.No, the one who was there, opening one curtain after another and letting the sun's rays fill the house, making his eyes hurt, was Alice.“What the hell is going on here?” he grunted, making her and Thea stop what they were doing, his housekeeper with a worried look, while his wife didn't seem the least bit intimidated by his presence there “Do you have any idea how much noise you're making? And what do you think you’re doing with my house?” He looked around, increasingly irritated to see that the furniture and decorations had moved around, as if Alice wanted to make sure everything looked as different and bright as possible “Put everything back in its place and close the curt
The days always seemed the same when Massimo spent a lot of time in his room, but he didn't give a damn about it.Before, he was still able to take advantage of the weakness and posthumous effects of surgery anesthesia to sleep for as long as possible. Sleeping, he wasn't haunted by that feeling of not feeling his legs, as if they just weren't there, and sometimes he felt them a little, but his brain just didn't obey him to move them. He could forget the pain of the many wounds still open on his body, covered by bandages. Of the many pains that were still spread throughout his body, never seeming to want to go away.When he wasn't awake, he was able to forget that the life he had fought for 27 years was now destroyed.Now, he was a broken man, inside and out, and who had made the terrible decision to chain a woman t
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