MALIA
Utterly confused. That was the only thing on my mind at the moment. It was just a freaking cup after all. I thought it would be funny, a tease. How could I have possibly known that he would react like that?
I stared after him first, then looked at Claire, confused. Isabella sighed and gave me a look. “We told you not to take that cup”, she mumbled.
“What is his problem? It’s a freaking cup!” Isabella and Claire shared a look I didn’t understand. “What is it?”
“To him, it’s not just a cup,” Claire started, “His mother gave him this cup when he was just a boy.”
A boy? How did they know this? Marcello didn’t seem to be the type to share childhood memories with his coworkers. But maybe he needed to explain it to them at one point so that they would be cautious with it.
“She died.
