Chapter 93. Dirty Tricks Won’t Work

ROSE

“Why are you here?” He asked still crouching down, while regarding me with that ever gentle look.

“Ah….”I quickly looked away and stood up, having how breathless I became that moment.

Why was I feeling this way? Yeah, I know how crazy Valerio drove me. But I came back to this house for Valentino, right?

Or else I would have just eloped with him, instead of meeting him around in the night like two teenagers who are crazy over each other but are forbidden to meet.

“Your grandfather….,”I started to say but hesitated for a while as I watched him stand his gaze intent on me. The old man has been clashing with them too much lately, and everything seemed to be my fault. And all for nothing. It nagged me to some extent.

“What did he do?” He asked with a frown perched on his face.

I watched him for while, as if is face would tell me exactly what to say. But I realized something, I felt a burning need within me.

During dinner when he placed a held me, and few minutes earlier when I was