Chapter 66 You Still Have Feelings for Me

Over the next three days, the secluded villa was filled with a suffocating tension. Alessandro's recovery was astonishing. A life constantly on the edge of danger had given him a beast-like constitution. Wounds that would have kept an ordinary person in the ICU for a week barely slowed him. By the third day, he was already out of bed. Though his face was still pale and his left arm suspended across his chest, his oppressive presence hadn't diminished one bit. In the morning, sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows into the dining room. Lucia sat at the table, sipping her tea while handling family affairs on her tablet. She wore a silk morning robe, buttoned tightly at the collar, leaving no skin exposed unnecessarily. When she heard the clattering from the kitchen, she frowned. "What are you doing?" Alessandro emerged from the open kitchen, bare-chested and wearing only loose lounge pants. Sweat glistened on the sculpted lines of his abs and chest, and his left s