Underestimation.
She hated it more than anything.
Very few things could make her angry, but when people looked down at her, it filled her heart with dark toxins. It aggravated her very soul, it turned her into something she couldn't explain. She's been like this ever since she was a child. Up until now, she's proven everyone who has ever underestimated her wrong.
And she'd do it again.
That night, Maria went to bed with a crease in her brows. Her mind replayed Lorenzo's words like a movie.
"The Don is going to regret what he's doing. Entrusting the business to someone like you? You'll bring all his and those before his hard work to the ground."
She'd prove them wrong. Whatever business this was, she was going to excel at it. But will her conscience allow her?
