Chapter 14 - I Asked Beatrice to Stop Calling Herself a Maid, and Her Answer Finally Made Me Understand Why I Could No Longer Imagine My Life Without HerI found Beatrice in the garden.

“You're not a maid anymore.”
She smiled.
“I know.”
“You still call me Mr. Moretti.”
“Habit.”
“You don't have to.”
She looked at me.
“What should I call you?”
“My name.”
“Adrian?”
“Yes.”
She smiled.
“Okay.”
Then I told her I loved her.
She cried.
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Not because she was surprised.
Because she had been waiting.