Maya thought she could shed tears, but her tear ducts had gone still, just as her heart was dying inside, mourning the loss of Dalton. She wanted to convince herself that, just as Dalton had forgiven her for accidentally shooting him, and believed immediately that she hadn't cheated and was being framed, he was going to continue loving her, and it wouldn't matter that she was Vico's daughter, but that was a delusion.
Within the few hours after Vico left her to her own devices, she had gone through all the stages of grief, and she is now in the acceptance stage. She coiled herself into a ball on the bed and had decided she was better off dead than living her life as a mafia princess—and a life without Dalton. She is going to starve herself to death.
The door knocked, and Maya just ignored it. Seconds later, it burst open, and three women dressed in old-fashioned maid attire walked in.
