Chapter 32

I smiled at him and observed him keenly just to make sure that he can be trusted for I need him to take me back to Milan. For I have to find someone who would help me to escape. He moved ahead and opened the door of the car, I climbed into it and he joined me. He started the car and we drove forward.

“What are you doing in this estate?” I asked him curiously as I looked ahead.

“I am a botanist,” he said glancing at me. I was shocked.

“Really!” A flicker of amusement crossed his face.

“Why do people always respond like that I wonder? What’s strange about the study of plants?”

“Is that what you’re doing here? Studying the vineyard?”

“I am making a tour of the Italian suburbs observing plants,” he said. “It is a Ph.D. stuff. I am doing a thesis on different species of plants found here.”

“It sounds fascinating,” I said.

“It is,” he said, and his voice was eager, and it had a thread of excitement. “But some people think it’s boring so I us