Chapter 11 - Isabella Apologized Without An Audience
Rosa eventually agreed to meet Isabella.
Lily was not present.
Isabella stood in the same marble hallway where she had screamed at
them.
“I’m sorry.”
Rosa waited.
“I treated you as if working here made you less than me.”
Rosa said nothing.
“I treated Lily worse because she was yours.”
That honesty mattered.
Isabella continued.
“I was jealous before I even knew why.”
Rosa frowned.
“Of a three-year-old?”
“Of the way Alessandro looked at her.”
Rosa understood.
Alessandro had been noticing Lily long before he admitted why.
Isabella noticed him noticing.
She interpreted the child as an intrusion into a household she believed
she was about to control.
“I frightened my daughter,” Rosa said.
“Yes.”
“I don’t forgive that today.”
Isabella nodded.
May you like
“I understand.”
It was the first respectful thing Rosa had ever seen her do.
