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“There is no father” She wouldn’t look atthis, but I was still no wiser as to what the fuck, so I couldn’t leave it there, I needed to know

So in ive her a child Which was theever since we obviously hadn’t known each other when the deed was done, and even if we had…

“What does that mean, you obviously let so her here to treat her like this, take that shit down a notch; can’t you see she’s fucking scared?

“Sorry, please tellon Why were you about to sleep in my stables? Are you in some kind of trouble? I can’t help you if you don’t tellwas, not is

She studiedover her as she laid back on rabbed the robe for her to put on I didn’t want to see the evidence of herwhatever it was, for some reason that little bump pissed me the fuck off

When she was sitting up and well covered I placed the tray across her lap “Eat” Even that she was skittish about until I threatened to feed her myself When she’d eaten as h, I put the tray back on the table

Sitting on the bed beside her, I placedbut essentially caging her in “I need to knohat’s going on with you I’ to hurt you, but I need to know” She sed hard and looked down at herself before the tears started again

“My papa, he is a very good e Proud, ot even worst and I was getting a very nasty feeling in ut

“There is this family, they are well to do, wealthy yes? But ood he says, stay away little Sofia”

She drifted away fro raised by a doting father after her mother had died, the wild and carefree childhood in the hill country, where she grew up in the old city Her stories of picking wild flowers, and parties, and plays in the village square sounded so far removed from my reality as to not be believed

I listened as she laid the foundation of the life she’d led before co I wanted to knowa blow

“I had listened to papa like always I stayed away fro them, especially the eldest as he seemed more of the troublemaker than the others” She sed hard here and pulled at the blanket I’d thrown across her lap

“He said these things whenever he would pass me by in his fancy car, but I paid no heed After all there were prettier girls in our little village Girls ould’ve gladly returned his affections, but always he see me…”

I was getting a pretty good idea where this shit was going and the anger was all but full blown I wanted to cry for her, wanted to go back there to her village and stop what I was almost certain she was about to describe to me, but I couldn’t

“Papa was late getting home, I don’t knohy that day of all days It wasn’t always that the Ricci were out and about in the village, they preferred the city, there waswealthy men” Her silent tears broke my heart as they fell from her eyes

“But that evening he was there He soe I was at the stove, I thought it was papa when I heard the breathing behind me…”

She started to shake then and her eyes were no longer focused, she’d gone away in her head I listened and died a little as she told of the brutal attack Of being taken down to the stone floor there in her father’s kitchen and violated, of her father coer

He’d sought justice for his only child but there was none, not for the poor farainst the most powerful family in their little part of the world When she told e a feeeks later and grinning, I al mind