Chapter 203. Father and Son War

Ellie's POV

I am still rooted near the door, peeling at the scene before me with bewilderment. "You both stop this!" Mrs. Riccaforte exclaimed, standing between them and gazing at them one after another.

She is a burning lioness among the two lions, but her anger is different. It is not because she is angry at someone, but because of the anger and fear of a woman seeing his family fight, and much worse, in front of her.

It is that fear of seeing a hint of your family being torn into pieces—the fear of losing a home, a family that you built for years and with a lot of sacrifices. She looks miserably furious and torn, and her fears cannot go unnoticed as well. I feel sorry for her, especially because neither Damian nor Mr. Riccaforte are willing to back down. Not even at her plea.

"It has been years since we were together like this as a family,” she continues, trying to stop that fight and speak some sense into the two enraged me, “and th