Chapter 33: Eros and Raimondo

PIETRO

I stopped on my tracks when someone placed a hand above my shoulder. I glanced over my shoulder, staring at the hand placed above it. I immediately recognized it as Eros’s hand because of the ring on his finger.

I turned around to face him, waiting for him to say something and explain why he had stopped me.

Eros stared at me with a childish and playful smile on his face. He removed his hand from my shoulder when he finally caught my full attention.

“Congratulations!” He said. His voice sounded so sincere and he doesn’t look like he is hiding any grudges against me.

It is as if he wasn’t just planning to marry Lucrezia, before I swept in and ruined his plans, stealing an opportunity from him.

I gave him an emotionless look, not fully trusting him. He could just be pretending that everything is still well between us. Behind that facade, he could already be thinking of how he’s going to strike a score with me.

He raised the same hand he used to place in my shoulder to offer me a