Chapter fifteen

Dario woke up the next morning feeling really good. He had decided to take the whole day off yesterday to rest and strategize after how stressful and eventful the previous day; the day of the banquet, was.

Rumors about the banquet spread like wildfire throughout the city, inflicting a profound sense of humiliation on Cooper and Delilah. The juicy gossip and speculations casted a dark shadow over their reputations, tarnishing their standing in the city. Everyone laughed at them for being thrown out of Cellar, people also decided to come up with their own different versions of what happened and spread it around the whole city.

The humiliation they faced, and was still facing at the moment intensified their resentment for Dario and both families promised to make him pay dearly for this.

When Dario rushed to the hospital with his heart almost racing out of his chest the other night, he was met with good news at the hospital. Dr Mane had informed him that Maria was now conscious and could