Chapter 284

When Rose asked us to form this new Corporation, and more specifically to get you as part of it, we wondered why. I kept thinking back to the time you met us at the sidewalk, while we were walking Annarosa. There was something going on between you and Rose, and I could not put my finger on it. It gnawed at me for a while, but I let it go. Then you showed up at my home to tell me about my husband. You were so warm and comforting that day, the feeling came back. It gnawed at me again. I kept seeing you and Rose in my mind together. I said it could not possibly be. When I moved here to Milan to be with her, and our family, and she suggested this venture, I knew she had something going on in her mind, too.

Unbeknownst to her, I called a meeting of our little group, and in the utmost secrecy, we hatched a little plan, to see if I was correct. With the help of Celeste's network of friends, we found out that we were right and we found out a lot more.

There is one man here