The more he thought about it, the more absurd it seemed to him, so Angelo decided to reject the idea.
-It's impossible! I watched her grow up as a child, so I know her very well. It is impossible that she could have done something so despicable. Cristian, I doubt that you conspired with Vittorio. Is it to cheat a poor old man like me, and not commit yourself to Magdalene?
Vittorio replied, "Grandfather, how is it possible that we conspired to lie to you? It's about our honor and reputation, how could I have told you if it wasn't the truth?
Just then Cristian gave a rather cold laugh and said to his grandfather: -I figured you wouldn't believe us, so...-As he paused, two men with a bound maid entered.
Vittorio blinked and looked very confused by what he had seen, while Angelo understood all at once by recognizing the maid, who was in charge of serving tea. What had happened was that he had not expected his nephew to be so efficient in his actions.
The maid, who was escorted by two men dressed in black, was stunned to see everyone in the room and her face immediately paled. She then began to plead with those two men, saying, "Let me go ... let me go, I don't know anything." let me go, I don't know anything ...
Before she was asked about last night, her frantic reaction had already sold her. This convinced Angelo that what Cristian and Vittorio had said might be the truth: Magdalene had indeed done wrong.
However, Angelo feared that such dirt would come out, because the Landi family's reputation would probably be ruined by Maddalena.
Considering his close friendship with the Landi family, he could not stand by while Maddalena and her family's reputation was ruined. So, he decided to cover up the reality, wanting her to take it outside, and exclaimed, -What is all this noise? It's giving me a headache, take her outside now!
In everyone's impression, Angelo had never been so hard on the servants; he had always treated them with respect, never with contempt. Right now, however, what he had let go in anger meant that he was panicking and doing everything he could to protect the reputation of the two families.
However, there was no way Cristian would let him get away with this, regardless of whether it was against his grandfather. He felt it was important to tell the truth, no matter what, because he was tired of taking the blame.
-Grandpa, there is no hurry here. We can listen patiently to what you say before we throw you out.
Angelo took a deep breath to calm himself and looked at Cristian. Just then, his gaze met Cristian's, and he was surprised to notice that he was so cold, he even felt that Cristian was not treating him like a grandfather.
Suddenly, what Dominic had said came back to him: do not break Cristian's heart. And that phrase echoed in Angelo's head as he could say nothing in the face of that look on Cristian's face.
He had always believed that he was doing what was best for his grandson, preventing him from following in his mother's footsteps, but... Why did it always end this way? He did not understand what was wrong with what he had done.
The maid stopped screaming innocently when she met Cristian's terrified gaze, then lowered her head without daring to make a sound.
At that moment, the silence was broken by Cristian's boisterous laughter, who then said, "Confess what you did last night, and tell us everything.
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Very boring...she is actually just dragging and dragging..no one is so stupid as the female in this story...