An Unwelcome Guest

~GENEVIEVE~

Caterina was already offering food when a knock on the door came.

She lit up like the house had been waiting for that interruption. It was clearly someone she was excited to see join us.

Plates paused. Pietro shut his mouth. She left the room at a pace that was almost a run and came back with a girl on her arm.

I had never seen her here before.

She looked about twenty-one and drop-dead