*Caterina*

There was something strange, yet special, about waking up in a new place, especially if it was a new place where you wanted to create a future.

I could still vaguely recall how I felt back when Elio and Alessandro relocated my mother and me to the safe house when our old home had been broken into. It was cold and so unfamiliar that I honestly felt uncomfortable being in it for a good while.

Slowly but surely, I’d gotten used to the place. But it ...