#Chapter60
‘’Alessandra has made you soft Gino. You watch too many romance movies with her and she has you thinking like a woman. Go home and let me deal with my business my way … my woman, my problem.’’ There’s a scuffing noise and I get up, poised to run to my room in anticipation like a scared animal, ready to jump, and yet I halt with another voice.
‘’He’s right Alexi … She ran because she’s scared. If you punish her for this she will run again, further and faster. I doubt she will come back of her own free will next time.’’ I recognise Mico’s voice and blanch. He has never seemed to like me or pay attention to me, and apart from being Alexi’s cousin, he doesn’t know me at all. I don’t get why they are intervening unless they know exactly what Alexi is going to do to me, and they are protecting him from going too far.
