Beautiful like a rose 🌹 but... fragile like a bomb 💣

Cap 40

I felt my pulse quicken suddenly, and I found myself running to the gate at the entrance of the villa.

Olga and Matteo were still there, watching the cars that had just left.

Massimo: Olga looks at me puzzled.

Olga: Massimo, what is it? What happened ?

Massimo: I have no idea. All I know is that I have a strange feeling that I can't explain. I've never felt this way before.

All 3 of us were silent, looking in the direction the cars were going.

Meanwhile, in the car in which Laura, Maya and Domenico were.

Laura: My love, look at mommy. You know I don't like to see you sad.

Maya refused to say a word or look at her mother. She was crying, hiding her face as she sat on Domenico's lap, who's trying his best to calm her down.

After a few minutes of crying and looking out the car window, she suddenly wiped away her tears and stood up and addressed to the driver in Italian:

Maya: Ferma la macchina!

Maya: Stop the car!

The driver looked at Domenico with the help of the mirrors, not knowing what to do.

Maya: (con fermezza) Non sono stata abbastanza chiara? Ferma l'auto! Ferma la macchina ora!

Maya: (firmly) Weren't I clear enough? Stop the car! Stop the car now!

Laura looks at Domenico puzzled, not understanding what Maya said to the driver.

At that moment, Domenico addresses the little one in English, so that Laura can understand their conversation.

Domenico: Maya my dear , what happened? Why did you ask the driver to stop the car?

Maya: Uncle, we have to go back. I forgot to give to Massimo something very important.

Laura: What ! Maya, I begged you to listen to me, and understand that we must leave now.

Uncle Domenico can give Massimo the thing which you forgot to give him.

Maya: No, he can't, I have to give it to him personally.

Laura: (raising her voice and asking the driver to start the car) Maya, stop!

Maya: (looking at her mother with a fixed and extremely serious eye) Why don't you understand that this is something very important?

Uncle Domenico can't give it to him , I have to do it myself.

Laura: I don't like your behavior at all. Tomorrow we will have an extremely serious discussion, miss!

Maya: My behavior! You're acting weird. You're the one who decided to come here and run away now.

What happens ? Who are you trying to run away from?

Laura, shocked by Maya's answer, looks at Domenico, not knowing how to react.

Maya: (all'autista in italiano) Se non fermi subito la macchina, ne esco in viaggio.

Maya: (to the driver in Italian) If you don't stop the car right now, I'll get out of it on the go.

Domenico: (scioccato dalle parole di Maya) Cosa? Maya, non farlo!

Domenico: (shocked by Maya's words) What? Maya, don't do this!

Domenico didn't even manage to translate to Laura what Maya had said, as the little one, already jumping in one go, managed to get from the back seat of the car to the seat next to the driver, where one of the bodyguards was sitting.

The driver manages to slow down the car, while the bodyguard tries to prevent Maya from opening the front door of the car.