|| VALENTINA's POV ||

I swallowed the feelings down to my throat, kept looking down at my feet that felt too heavy. I shouldn't act so childishly. But the emotions were turbulent in my heart. It was getting impossible to act calmly in front of him.

Leaving Kylie behind, he reached out to touch my forehead first, his voice leaping with concern,

" Are you sick? Is everything okay with your health, love?"

Mumbling to him hastily, I headed inside the mansion,

" I..I am just tired, Lorenzo.."

Once I was back in the room, I let the emotions take over me, burst into tears. My throat ached from the...