Chapter 52. Reality or Fantasy?

Everyone arrived for dinner looking pensive. Anyone who saw them would say that each one had a plan in mind, and that they would only act when they were sure that the others would be surprised. And they wouldn't be wrong.

However, they talked as cutely as they could, considering that there were so many rivals at one table. Caio no longer ate his evening meals with the others in the house. He liked to go to bed early and dinner was served very late there.

Everyone went to their own rooms after dinner. Giovanna went out onto the balcony and looked out. That view of the dates one in front of the other making a huge corridor never ceased to amaze her, she could look at it a million times and she still wouldn't tire of its beauty. Something glinted on the ground and she strained her eyes to see if she could see it. But it wasn't an object. It was a woman. It wasn't the first time she had seen her. She remembered seeing her with a shield and a spear. Now she wasn't carrying an