Chapter 233. Protect Her

Rico's pen stopped and he looked at his mother. He leaned back in his chair. "What about her?"

She held his gaze, her fingers finding each other and twisting together lightly at her front, a gesture she wasn't aware she was making. "About her marriage."

A small frown formed between his brows when he heard her. Was she here to get him to stop the marriage? She knew it was almost impossible for an arranged marriage among families like theirs to be called off once everything had already been agreed upon.

Then what exactly did she want to talk about?

"Speak," he said. 

Donna Marta inhaled softly. “I know you may not want to hear this, but I have to say it," she began, her voice careful, “When I was younger, nobody asked me anything.” 

Her eyes were lowered, aimed