Mancini's POV
It has been quiet these past few days. After that dinner stunt Deanna and Marcus pulled I decided to stay quiet and check my steps again.
The past few days had been smooth, though. No arguments with anybody. It's like everybody decided to leave me alone to think. I hadn't seen Marie since the night we went for dinner. Sometimes the servants came to ask me if I would like her to join me for dinner, but I always declined and had my dinner in my room. She had been quiet, which I liked. A quiet wife meant a controlled wife.
She didn't know this, but from the day I married her into this house, I had kept a servant to spy on her. I hadn't received any serious reports about her. The spy told me she was watching another servant who hung around her a lot, but she hadn't seen anything suspicious between them.
I'll let her have a friend, but once my spy reports that something suspicious is going on, the servant will be dismissed.
