PIETRONight has come and the guests had left, the wedding was over and we are now to head home. A place where I won’t live alone anymore. I could now feel the tiredness overcoming my body, especially the small pains coming from my leg. I was standing all day, walking around talking to the guests. I was afraid to take the seat beside Lucrezia. I thought it would be best if I keep my distance from her especially after the vows that I have given her. I made it clear to her that I won’t love her and if she expects that I would, she will only end up getting disappointed.It’s better to break the last hopes that she has so she would stop expecting love from me. During our exchange of vows, I knew that was what she was trying to tell me. I can’t give her false hopes. I have to act on my words and show her that I was saying the truth. “Lucrezia left early.” Pericles told me even though I wasn’t asking. I saw her left earlier, even though I was keeping myself busy with the other guests,

LUCREZIAI sauntered towards Pietro to face him after I told him my wishes. My wish is simple, I just don’t want to regret this marriage. He said it himself that I shouldn’t expect love from him, but as my husband he should at least give me something. If he is not willing to give me his love, then he should at least give me something else. It just so happens that the other thing I desire is to have a child with him. I sauntered towards Pietro to face him and continue what I was doing as if I didn’t just bluntly demanded him to impregnate me. I placed my arms around him again and I almost flinched back when I met his eyes. It didn’t escape my eye to see the hints of guilt and hesitation that swirled in his eye. I removed my hands from him instantly as if I was burned by his touch. My feet took small steps backwards, as I continue to stare at him with my mouth slackening with disappointment. He is not willing to give me love, and he is not willing to

PIETRO My body feels tired and heavy after a long day at work. I was just planning to finish some paperworks, but once I get into work mode it was really hard for me to stop. I ended up staying in the office longer than I had initially planned. I drove to the parking lot surprised to see that the lights in the mansion were still open, I glanced at the time indicator in the car and saw that it was almost midnight, 11:53 to be exact.Lucrezia slept at almost 3:00 in the morning last night, I thought that she would more likely to be asleep right now.Even I feel like my body is about to give up because of lack of sleep and still pushing my body to working up to this hour. I think I only had a three hour sleep after the wedding and after that I continued with my usual work routine again. I’m supposed to be on leave today considering that I just got married. However I don’t want to make things awkward between us by staying in the house alone with Luc

LUCREZIA“H-Huh?” I stammered softly. My mind went blank that I don’t know how to respond.How can my mind still continue working when Pietro is looking at me like that. Pietro looks so worried, and he is worried over me. I pulled my hand away from his grasp afraid that if my heart continues to beat this rapidly, my arms would start to tremble and he will find out the effect that he has on me. I lowered my head to hide my face from his gaze so he wouldn’t see the blush that crept up on my cheeks.“Did something happen while you were outside?” Pietro continues to ask. His worry starts to grow worse because I couldn’t answer him correctly. “No, nothing happened. I’m totally fine,” I gave him a sincere smile that reaches to my ears. You see this guy, he says he doesn’t love me, but he worries so much about me just because he saw me walking with a slight limp him. The only reason why I couldn’t walk straight because I was stupid to wear high hee

LUCREZIAI look like horror as I tried my best to cook a proper meal for Pietro. As soon as I woke up and ate the breakfast that Pietro cooked for me before he left for work, I immediately made my research on different easy meals that I can cook with no experience. I never thought that cooking would be this hard. I’m just so awful at cooking that I looked like I was concocting poison for an enemy and not cooking dinner for my husband. I exhaled loudly tilting my face up because of tiredness. Seeing all the mess I have made in the kitchen is enough to make me lose hope. If cooking is already hard enough, then how much would cleaning all these mess be? I’ve been in the kitchen for hours and there are mess everywhere. The sink is filled with used kitchen tools, the kitchen counter is filled with all the ingredients I had used. There are mess even on the floor. I have thought of buying food outside and tell Pietro that I cooked it myself. However, not only would I add another lie to Pi