Matteo's Pov

One month later.

It has been a month since I've had the opportunity to spend some quality time with my wife, but it is not completely my fault that we've been distant.

Ever since our last encounter—which happened to be the day I fucked her senseless in front of the lifeless body of the man she had murdered, it has been seeming as though Mirabella avoids me deliberately. She walks the other way whenever she sees me coming, avoids my eyes by all means necessary and has ...