Carmella

" "You have changed, topolina," he murmured from beside her. The endearment he used surprised her.

She stiffened. "How so?" She turned her head to see him staring at her intently, drinking in each and everything about her.

He leaned back, placing his arm on the back of her seat, and rested his right leg on his left knee.

"Tsk. We all missed you very much. It feels surreal seeing you; you have indeed changed. You lack life, tesoro. What happened to you?"

She narrowed her eyes and studied his face briefly, before averting her gaze back to outside.

"I do not know."

She flinched as his index finger and thumb gently gripped her chin, turning her head towards his. His eyes bore into hers and his voice was euphonious. "You look at me when you talk."

She looked up at him from her lashes, her eyes not wavering as she held his. "Yes," she said, suddenly breathless. "

•••••

Carmella had been living in Canterbury for a year, under the name of 'Jane', after waking up in hospital with no recollection of her past, identity, or how she got her extensive injuries. Not a single record of her existed and her identiy continued to remain a mystery until one day, someone broke into her guardian's apartment. Everything changes.

When Eliseo sees her again she's a changed woman, and the undeniable attraction they have between them starts to grow unbearable.

MATURE