Chapter 77

Maria:

I walked out of the room without saying a word, shocked of myself for even entering that room in the first place.

My phone rang, and it didn’t take me long to figure that it was Lexi. I shook my head and hung up on her, the last thing that I needed right now was to talk to her, not with everything that was going on, and not with the way that she’s been treating me.

“Maria?” Diablo asked, frowning in confusion as he saw me beside his room.

“Your wife is still refusing to eat. I tried to have the maids get her something, she is going to send it back before she leaves.” I said, not looking at him. He put his finger under my chin, raising my face to look at him, and shaking his head, I knew he was silently asking what I was up to.

“What are you doing, Maria?” He asked, voicing out his question when he saw that I was quiet.

“I listened to her,” I said, and he frowned in confusion. “While you left her to calm down, I chose to go and listen to what she was going to tell me.”

“You are