PIETRO To be honest, Pietro has the same doubts as Pericles also. He is also not sure whether he did the right thing of telling him his true secret or if he should have just chosen to lie to her again instead. Pietro trusts Lucrezia, but there re a lot of things that Pietro had to consider aside from the trust that he had given her. Of course, he also had to to take her background into consideration and the fact that she is born from the Rocchi family. Pietro grew up thinking that there is nothing good that should be expected from the mafias. Mafias are all powered by their money and greed. They wouldn’t hesitate to kill or to betray when it comes in exchange of money or power. Pietro’s secret holds a lot of power above his head. This means that if Lucrezia is like the others who is motivated by their greed for money and power, she would just have to share this secret he told him to someone and she would have the other things

LUCREZIAPietro and I had finally arrived at our destination, but I still hadn’t forgiven him for the tricks he pulled against me. The whole ride was eerily quiet as I ignored him. Everytime Pietro would take his chance to defend himself, I would interject and make him fall silent with my sarcastic answers. Since he was driving, he couldn’t also fully place his attention to me. He is torn between focusing on me or focusing while he was driving, but in the end, he chose not to say anything anymore since I always flipped him off with my sarcastic words. My ears are not yet ready to listen to what he is going to say, and he knows that. He chose not to waste his efforts on me knowing that his words will only fall to deaf ears. I find it hard to easily forgive him in my heart. I couldn’t accept that he just told me he is going to replace me if I died first before him. Even though I know that he didn’t m

PIETROSeeing how Lucrezia feels so relaxed under my touch, I knew she had already forgiven me. Her eyes no longer held anger in them, and she doesn’t have to tell me that she had forgiven me to understand that she already did.“Why are we even arguing about who is going to die first and the things we are going to do in those situation? Haven’t we agreed that we are going to grow old and die together?” I asked aloud to bring both Lucrezia and I out of our upsetting thoughts. Lucrezia finally blinks upon hearing my question and fixed herself when she realized that she had been gawking at me. Not that I mind, I could admire her beauty all day long at that close distance between our faces. Lucrezia cracks out a smile when my question had registered in her head. “We shouldn’t be arguing about these things, it won’t happen anyway,” I added even though I know that someday I’m going to leav

LUCREZIAPietro and I stayed for the night and slept at the house after things got out of hand between us. We were supposed to go home that same day we arrived at the house, but we decided to stay, not expecting that we would still be there by night. Letizia suggested that we stay for the night since the mansion has many rooms for us to choose at. She tried to convince us that it’s better to travel tomorrow morning than at night, even though I know that she only wanted us to stay just so she could stay with me much longer. Nonetheless, her plan worked and she managed to convince Pietro and I to stay for the night. To be honest, I feel bad for Letizia. Now that Pietro and I had finally reconciled, we had agreed to each other that I will no longer work as a consigliere to my family anymore and that I will have to go back and live at the house with him. I promised Letizia before that I would help her and that I’d be the fam

LUCREZIAThere was this feeling that crawled inside my chest as soon as I saw that Pericles has actually been waiting for us at our house. I don’t know if I was just being a pessimist or if it was just my fears talking. Life hasn’t been good to me recently, and now that Pietro and I had finally reconciled our differences, I thought everything would go smoothly after that. Maybe I was overthinking or maybe I was too ambitious that I should have known that it was too good to be true. In life, there is no such thing as happy endings. Unlike in the books, their story only ends when the character gets or loses what they wanted. However in life, the story continues and it only stops when we die. “I’ll just go talk to Pericles, okay? Wait for me inside the house, I’ll just hear whatever he has to say,” Pietro gave me an assuring smile and places a soft kiss on the back of my palm to comfort me.