Beyond Pretense

Rocco's POV

I hadn’t expected breakfast to be simple, but I didn’t expect it to nearly blow up in my face either. When I walked in and heard the way my sister-in-law and my daughter spoke to Alessia, so condescending and cruel, I saw the hurt in Alessia’s eyes, and it broke me in ways I couldn’t explain. Setting something loose inside me that I couldn’t hold back, and I ended up scolding my daug