Gianna
I couldn’t believe my ears. Did she just say that they were both dead?
“What?” both Amara and I exclaimed in unison. Grazia nodded, folding her arms across her chest.
“It’s been years,” she said. “Why else do you think neither ever made an appearance? Because they didn’t get the chance to.”
“De…dead…how?” I asked. Grazia gave me a dirty look, but I don’t think it was for me.
“Alessandro killed them,” she said plainly. “Rosa was threatening to expose him, was demanding a place for Maximino in his life and for him to be announced as the heir and not Nico. But she was stupid and naïve to think she could play someone like Alessandro Baldocchi. We had warned her to let it be. Girls at the slave house get knocked up by some rich bastard every other day. But she refused, and it en
