Chapter 73

(Filippo Valentini)

After the doctor was done with my arm, I stared at the gate for a few more hours in a false hope that she would come back. But that didn't happen, that piece of shit managed to take her from me and right now they are so angry that I am using all my self-control not to go breaking everything.

“Filippo, come to dinner.” Lais' voice had my concentration on the gate.

“I'm not hungry.” I say without looking at her.

The baby starts crying in her lap, this makes me look away and seeing my brother Matteo's wife with the baby in her arms, trying to make her stop crying while speaking sweet words makes my thoughts return to Renata. In a few months, the baby will be out of her belly, in her arms, she will look lovingly at the child... a child that may not be mine, but I will take over.

“What happened? Vicenzo also said he is not hungry and locked himself in the office. You went out and came back bathed in blood.”

“I thought the only thing you paid attention to was this baby.”