Chapter 72

ISABELLA’S P.O.V. Lorenzo avoided me for the entire Thursday. At first, I thought we just so happened to be missing each other but when I was walking down the hall and he made an abrupt turn, I knew that it was deliberate. I wanted to corner him and force him to speak to me but I knew there were times that my crudeness wasn’t necessary and that was one of them. Friday morning was the next time he spoke to me. I had just woken up and he spoke one sentence to me before he walked out of the room. “We are going out later today, just the two of us. Don’t wear a dress and make sure it is black.” I didn’t get to ask any more questions and despite the number of times I tried to corner him or Matteo in the halls to find out more, they both gave me nothing to work with. All I was able to get out of them was a time and it was six p.m. I hated not knowing and I was worried that I would either be underdressed or overdressed. It wasn’t until four that I resigned myself to not knowing and started