{CHIARA}
Guilt gnaws at me as I make my way through the manicured maze garden that takes up a good portion of the backyard. It's absolutely beautiful, but truth be told, I think I'm lost. It's clear this garden was put here to disorientate anyone who comes through it, and right now, I wish that was something l'd realized before I decided to wander through it.
It's been an hour. This is getting ridiculous.
While it's been almost four days since the DeLorenzo Family Gala and my disastrous meetings with both Sergiu and his bitch wife, my body had not yet healed nearly enough for this kind of walk.
Don't get me wrong, Killian has certainly put me through my paces in the bedroom, but he's been careful not to exhaust me, and he always makes sure he's the one putting in the work. I'm never at risk when I'm with him, and when I wandered into this damn maze, I never imagined that I could have been walking headfirst into a disaster. Yet here l am.
