Chapter 271

It had nothing to do with her.

"If anything untoward has happened, you have the same rights as any other staff member." "Just because Gilberto is family..."

"I hear your sister’s having a baby..." She pulled a crumpled tissue out of her pocket and gave her nose a rather loud blow.

"What does that have to do with this?" Elmo’s voice was completely even, his face impassive, but he had to stop himself from drumming his fingers on the desk—actually, he had to remind himself to keep looking her in the eye as she voiced his very thoughts. How the hell would Annabella cope? She had just started to get her life back on track after Elpido’s death—the new baby was due in just a few days, and there was his niece, Lucia, just four years old—what the hell had Gilberto been thinking?

"It has everything to do with this!" Brianna gulped. "Look, I’m fine—I really am—and I don’t want any fuss." I just want to get my things and leave.

And, though it must surely be the last thing she wanted after the day