“Massimo!” Thea gasped, but Alice just held her shoulder, calming her.
“So, you just want to do what you want, right?” Alice raised an eyebrow “Okay then.” Calmly, she pulled his plate away from him, making Massimo groan.
“What do you think you’re doing?!”
“If you're not willing to do something that you know will only be good for you, then that means you're not willing to do the rest either, I believe.” She raised an eyebrow, moving to where he couldn't reach her “Or was I wrong? Thea, could you get the medicine back, please? Since Mr. Bianchi wants to eat, that means he is also willing to do whatever he needs, right?”
“You...” Massimo glared at her, cornered as if he had been caugh
“And that’s Rainbow Dash! She likes to fly, so she will stay on your lap where it is highest.” Millie skipped across the garden until she reached where Massimo was, placing her little plastic pony on his knee.“Uh... Thanks. I will take care of her.” Massimo promised hesitantly, taking the toy between his hands as if he didn't know what to do with it, and Alice wasn't very successful in containing her laughter, as he immediately turned to her, irritated "I think I've already had a sunbath long enough. Why don’t we continue this game inside?” he offered to Millie, as careful and gentle as if he were dealing with a soap bubble.“But we just arrived.” Millicent blinked, confused “We still have plenty of time to play!” She clapped her hands, running to get one of her baby dolls, but instead
“Look at that.” Emma Bianchi narrowed her eyes, almost as if she was looking at an insect “It seems that your condition is not as critical as your lawyers said to find an excuse to further delay the process of transferring positions in the company.”“Mother...” the man next to her, who Alice knew very well was Massimo’s half-brother, Dante Bianchi, tried to calm his mother, but neither Emma nor Massimo paid any attention to her.“Do you want me to call the police to get you off my land...?” Massimo questioned, intimidatingly “Or do you want to do this with your own legs, Emma?”“Still disrespectful even after all that’s been through, I see.” His stepmother raised an eyebrow “I thought a situation like this would have at least t
“Get her out of here right now!” Alice's order reverberated through the garden, and even herself was surprised at how firm she seemed, especially because there had been few times in her entire life when she had had the opportunity to take control, but even so she remained with her expression unchanged, determined to expel those people who were disturbing Massimo.“Get me out of here...? Do you really think you can kick me out of the farm that belongs to my family...?” Emma growled, her voice rising even more as Joshua and his men began to approach “Don't you dare touch me...!”“Let’s go, mom.” Dante held her arm, almost as if she were a mischievous child trying to throw a tantrum “This has gone too far already...”“How can you want to leave afte
The days always seemed the same when Massimo spent a lot of time in his room, but he didn't give a damn about it.Before, he was still able to take advantage of the weakness and posthumous effects of surgery anesthesia to sleep for as long as possible. Sleeping, he wasn't haunted by that feeling of not feeling his legs, as if they just weren't there, and sometimes he felt them a little, but his brain just didn't obey him to move them. He could forget the pain of the many wounds still open on his body, covered by bandages. Of the many pains that were still spread throughout his body, never seeming to want to go away.When he wasn't awake, he was able to forget that the life he had fought for 27 years was now destroyed.Now, he was a broken man, inside and out, and who had made the terrible decision to chain a woman t
What Massimo found when he left the room and went just a few meters down the corridor was not Thea hunting a mouse or doing her careful weekly cleaning.No, the one who was there, opening one curtain after another and letting the sun's rays fill the house, making his eyes hurt, was Alice.“What the hell is going on here?” he grunted, making her and Thea stop what they were doing, his housekeeper with a worried look, while his wife didn't seem the least bit intimidated by his presence there “Do you have any idea how much noise you're making? And what do you think you’re doing with my house?” He looked around, increasingly irritated to see that the furniture and decorations had moved around, as if Alice wanted to make sure everything looked as different and bright as possible “Put everything back in its place and close the curt
“And now... The coin is here!” Millie screamed in excitement, not seeming to realize that everyone could see her remove the coin from inside her shirt sleeve, pretending that it had simply appeared behind Massimo’s ear “Abracadabra!”“Well, that was really... Impressive.” He smiled, even clapping his hands, while Millie bounced in place more than happy with her magic trick.“You are such a cute magician!” Alice welcomed her into a hug, when her baby came running to her “So, did Sesame Street teach you any more amazing magic tricks?”"No. But Big Bird said that tomorrow he will teach you how to make a toy chest out of a cardboard box.” Her daughter said, opening her mouth when Alice offered her a piece of apple “Tomorrow we'll be able to wa
“Don’t worry, Mr. Bianchi.” Lucy's voice didn't change that much, but Alice knew her best friend well enough to know that she was trying very hard not to cry "I would never think that."“Uh… Millie? Why don’t you go with Massimo inside and start organizing a party with your dolls, just like we always played with Aunt Lucy?” Alice suggested, making her daughter instantly euphoric.“Come on, Massimo! You can help me prepare the tea party!” She walked over to him, seeming completely oblivious to his intentions of resting, especially when she placed Hoppy on his lap and darted off into the mansion alone, forcing him to follow her.“I... I confess that he seems friendlier than I imagined, after all those rumors.” Lucy murmured, even when Millie and Massim
“Look, Hoppy! They’re bubbles!” Millie’s happy scream made Alice smile, as she blew bubbles towards her daughter “Try to catch them!”“Oh, I forgot how much energy kids of her age have.” Thea murmured, standing next to Alice, stretching her spine “I miss when Josh was that age, but at the same time I don't. I get more tired having to chase a baby than I do after cleaning this house...”“One good thing is that she is using all her energy now to get a good night’s sleep.” Alice laughed, blowing a few more bubbles into the air as Millicent ran back and forth, her arms up as she tried to get Hoppy to reach for little clear balls. “And I need to make the most of these nights of rest because, the day before her birthday, she won’t even be able to stand still for a single moment