Chapter 23

MIA

“I’LL SHOW YOU UP TO YOUR ROOM, ma’am”

The butler, the housekeeper, whoever was in charge of the house here grabbed my hand and I let him.

I didn’t like it in the least bit.

I didn’t like using anyone for support, I didn’t like that certain uneasiness in their voices when they offered to help me.

Even with the guys, Flames’ friends, I had felt it. I had felt that certain drop in their voices, that sound eyes made when eyelids clashed more than once, they all looked at me and had no clue how to treat me.

Everything was over, I knew but how-how could this be my beginning?

A life so desolate, a life where I was confined to the man I didn’t want near me, a life condemned to asking help from others, to rely on someone’s eyes.

I hadn’t come to terms with that yet.

I also hadn’t come to terms that Alessandro was in my life now. Permanently.

And you know what? That was hard than being blind, because in all this messiness, he was the guy I wanted to turn to.

But the guy I wanted to turn to