Chapter 11

Kat POV

I knew that I had to tell Giulia everything that had happened over the last two weeks, and I did exactly that. We sat together in the old, candle lit church, nestled in the corner where no one would bother us.

The priest was ancient and half deaf, so not many people actually visited the church, making it the ideal spot for Giulia and I to talk without the fear of being overheard.

“Why didn’t you tell me all of this sooner? I am sure we would have found you a way out of this hole without you digging an even deeper one,” she grumbled, rubbing her temples as if I had given her a headache with my story.

I shrugged, “I didn’t want to make you worry - and I know how much I had lectured you about staying away from Fabio because he is a Castello, and now look.”

Giulia laughed prettily. “And now you’re the one lusting after a Castello. Is he as disfigured as they say?”

I shook my head and fought the blush which threatened to spill out onto my cheeks. “He’s got a scar across his eye