CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
As she wept in the shadows, Keira felt like everyone was looking at her and whispering. In desperate need of support, she grabbed her phone from her soggy purse—realizing as she did so that she’d abandoned her suitcase in the gondola with Cristiano. Luckily, her phone wasn’t damaged. But her notebook was. She pulled it out in a soggy clump of pulped pages. The sight made her tears fall even more.
Keira managed to pull her bedraggled body back up to standing as she deliberated over whom to call. She saw Cristiano’s name flash up on the screen. He was calling her, but she didn’t want to speak to him, she didn’t want to fall victim to any more of his lies.
It was then she saw a missed call from Maxine. She hit redial quickly.
When Maxine answered, Keira immediately hear
