Reality - 2

The party continued, but I spent the rest of the day drinking and smoking without saying a word to anyone. My eyes never left my Light, and I remained perfectly deaf to what my cousins or brothers told me.

I don't even know how I ended up in my bed at night.

When I went downstairs for breakfast, the headache that was tearing my head apart was gone as soon as I found Lucia, alone, in the kitchen.

Neither she nor I had said a word.

I approached her while she had her back to me to start to make coffee. I had taken her in my arms, tightening my fingers between them against her belly. I had left my forehead on her shoulder and had been content to take deep breaths.

Lucia had frozen at my touch, then relaxed and continued to move gently to prepare breakfast.

From the outside, I must have looked perfectly ridiculous and pathetic, clinging to a girl ten years younger than me.

Dio mio! It has to stop, but I don't wa