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Rocco's POV

The moment we get to the shade and I help her sit down before sitting across from her, she picks up a paper and throws it at me.

I was expecting a long moment of silence from her before I eventually asks her to forgive me but from the look of things, I have already been forgiven. She is just ignoring me on purpose.

I take the paper to see if it is actually a newspaper. When I drop it over my lap, I see the headlines.

Rocco Lorenzo, the CEO of Multi-Million Company seen with his newly wedded wife having a private dinner at ...."

I look up to see Mother's expression. Still unreadable.

Did my plan work?

"Is it true?" She demands weakly, her hands trembling a little. I notice she isn't as lively as she was the last time we came here for dinner. She seems to be getting weaker every day.

I nod without a word.

There is a picture of Valentina and I attached to the news. I don't understand why she is asking me if it is