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"Stay here. I'll send someone to show you the rest of the way," he grunted, and I let him continue into the large reception hall, disappearing behind the door on the extreme end. He seemed interested in punishing me for pushing him away, but I didn't care. He made me wait nearly thirty minutes with Artemis in my arms before someone came to my rescue.
"Good evening, ma'am." A pristinely dressed brunette man stretched his hand to shake mine and something about him just put me at ease. I let an arm lose from under Artemis and took his.
"Ricardo," he introduced himself. "Here, let me help you with her. She must be deadweight already." He offered to carry the sleeping child and I accepted with gratitude.
"Sienna," I told him my name. "...and this is Artemis." I placed the toddler in his arms. I could feel my arm muscles almost deadened from the weight of carrying her for such a long time. She was a big child, weighing an incredible thirty-two pounds, despite her young age and so without being fat or overweight.
"Nice to meet you both," he spoke with this soothing alto, almost as if he forced himself to be so smooth. "Careful there," he guided me away from a mantel piece I didn't notice when we entered into a lobby that looked very much like a hotel.
"Thanks."
"Oh, please. Alessandro would have my head if anything happened to you, so... I'm just doing my job," he scoffed and tipped an invisible hat to accept my appreciation.
It was my turn to scoff, "I highly doubt that."
"Huh. Well, his words exactly, so...Well, we're here." He stopped at one of the last rooms on the left in the hallway.
"Whose room is that?" I pointed to the door opposite mine.
"Mine," he smiled. "I was kind of assigned to watch over you, so... I'll be here all the time, as long as you need me." He began backing into his room. "Would you like a tour tomorrow? Of the estate?"
"If it will take my mind off the rollercoaster I feel right now, I'd appreciate it very much."
"See you tomorrow, Miss Sienna." He handed me Artemis and entered his room.
"Goodnight," I greeted after his retreating form and entered into my own room.
Even though it had a different style and color pattern, brown and greenish brown, the room resembled almost precisely, the one I stayed in Alessandro's former suite, which is how I also styledmy room. The bean bags, the large bed, everything...even down to the position of the bedside tables.
I didn't even register falling on the bed. The next thing I recalled was Artemis tugging at my hair and light flooding my vision as I opened my eyes to the morning.
By the time Artemis and I were fully awake, we got a knock on our door and upon answering it, Ricardo greeted us with two other domestic looking workers. Both men dragged in a huge crate full of clothes.
"They should've just brought my clothes from my house." I face-palmed when I didn't recognize any of the clothes in the crate.
"Well, I don't think you'd be needing any of those," Ricardo waved. "Besides, newer is better, right?"
"Is that an actual saying?" I cocked a brow.
"Well...no, but which would you prefer, new clothes or old clothes?"
"If these were bought by Alessandro, I’d love old clothes. Thank you very much."
He pouted, "Aww..."
"Yes," I nodded for emphasis, but he just beamed again.
"You'll love these then. They were personally hand-picked by no one else butMoi," He said as he took a bow.
"I hate them less," I smiled sarcastically, making him laugh.
"Come on, put on something nice and let's start our tour, shall we?"
"Well, it depends on how quickly they finish." I nodded to the two domestic staff.
In the next hour, Ricardo, Artemis, and I were strolling through the back of the house. That was where we started from. You'd expect the back to be a little out of order since it was the less visible part of the house, but everything was in pristine order. Good enough for Alessandro to be having breakfast with some people in a shed outside.
"Is there no other route to the vegetable garden?" I asked Ricardo as we neared the table via the walk path provided.
