Explain Yourself!

HARPER

It was surprising because I felt like Aldo was opening himself up to befriending me. He was the only one interested in what I was doing in my area.

"So, you have to cut this part, and this part! If you don't then…" I was so excited to explain how I care for my vineyard to Aldo. Now and then, Aldo glanced at the staff working on my plantation.

As if his eyes were staring straight at one of the men in the hat at the end. I smiled faintly, seeing his facial expression.

"It's okay!" I said.

Aldo shrugged. "It seems like your members aren't too happy with my presence here," he said.

I chuckled. "Well, they know you're a Mattia family member!"

"So?"

"So, they are just being careful! Not that they don't like you!"

"How did you do it?" he asked.

I stopped what I was doing, wiping the beads of sweat rolling down my forehead. At times like this, I saw Aldo as if looking at myself in the mirror. When I was in Mattia's manor, I always asked Mabel this and that.

Being in a place that feels