201. Athena
Things weren’t great, but they weren’t completely terrible either.
For the past few days, I had been confined to the mansion, Lorenzo refusing to let me go anywhere. He barely let me out of his sight for more than two minutes, his protectiveness bordering on suffocation.
I understood his fear though, Marissa was still out there, lurking, waiting. He didn’t want to risk anything happening to me. But even with his arms wrapped around me like a shield, I couldn’t shake the gnawing unease that had settled deep in my bones.
There was so much I had remembered, so much I wanted to find out and I wanted to know how my business was doing but Lorenzo refused to let me leave.
“I need to get some water. I don’t feel right,” I murmured, glancing up at him.
His grip on me tightened. “S
