Sophia's POV.
"What boyfriend? What rape?... I don't understand," I stammered, shaking my head in confusion.
"I told you yesterday that my mother used to starve me, right?" Alessandro said, looking away and replacing the bar of chocolate with a pack of chocolates on the shelf.
"Well, she later got this boyfriend who started living with us," he muttered with a sigh. "She began changing a bit because she wanted to probably make a good impression for this man."
"He was also being nice at first," Alessandro added, his gaze fixed on the item in his hand. "I thought I was finally going to have this complete family where I would be treated right, but I was so wrong."
"After a while of impressing him, she got tired of it when he moved in with us. She began maltreating me too, doing a lot to h
