Chapter 90. The Groom

Giovanna felt that luck was smiling on her again. Living with this woman was proving to be much more profitable than her old apartment, in many ways. The woman washed her clothes and kept her room clean, the rent was much cheaper than in her old apartment, and she helped her with her studies, as she had been a surgical examiner for forty years at the hospital where she worked and knew more about medicine than many of her teachers.

Meanwhile, the detective who was investigating the burglary in her old apartment invited her out on all his days off.

Giovanna began to grow fond of him. He had light brown hair, blue eyes and was thirty-two years old. For the first time since her disastrous engagement, she was starting to think about having a family again. That detective was a great candidate and their children would be beautiful.

She paused for a moment at this thought. Children? Why did she feel it wasn't a good thing to have children? Most women had the natural d