~Tiara I sat in the garden, the morning air cool against my skin, but my mind was far from clear. The lush greenery surrounding me, the flowers swaying gently in the breeze—none of it mattered. I couldn’t stop thinking about everything that was happening, about what I was feeling, and about how lost I felt in it all. I was falling for Giovianni. I had never expected it, never wanted it, but it was happening. Every time I saw him, my heart raced, my thoughts scattered, I was seeing a side of him that I had never noticed before. It wasn’t just the man I had been around, the one who felt like a stranger sometimes. No, this new Giovianni was something else entirely—something familiar, something that made my heart ache in ways I couldn’t explain. I sighed deeply, feeling a weight in my chest

