#Chapter 198 – Changes are Coming

Matilde is immediately at my side, gasping and rapidly asking me questions in Portuguese – questions I don’t understand or don’t have time to process as my whole body shakes with the realization. That I’m… I’m… That I apparently have been the entire time I’ve been here, and that I have just been to stupid to realize it. That even Matilde realized it, and thought that I knew, and assumed that Frankie was the father and that we’d just been…I don’t know, figuring out our relationship!? But Frankie is… I groan, the tears coming faster now as all of the details flood into my mind – the only possible answer to the question of how this happened. That history has somehow darkly repeated itself, and that I am now in the same place Christian’s mother was more than two decades ago when she fled from the house of the Mafia King. Matilde places her hands firm under my face, forcing me to look up at her, staring down at me with a great deal of worry about my sudden collapse into tear