Chapter 24

(Renata Pellegrini)

How to describe the emotion of stepping for the first time into a mall? And even more, when all the stores are open just waiting for you to enter? Knowing this makes a chill run through my stomach. I feel like a child excited to go to a different place. This is good.

"Does he bring all his assistants here?" - this thought pops into my mind, I stare at him, my eyes sparking with anger, I wish I could electrocute him with the force of my gaze.

“Didn't you like the stores?” He asks, staring at me, we stop walking and I feel my face heat up.

Where did my desire to kill him go?

“W-we haven't been in any yet," I say, looking away.

“You don't look so good, ragazza.”

“It's just... a thought has come to me," my voice is only a whisper.

“About?” He asks with a raised eyebrow, and I feel his gaze burn my skin.

“It's just that it crossed my mind that you might have already come here with the other assistants, just the two of you, walking through these huge corridors…” I stop t