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Her attraction to him was natural

He was the ly handsome man she’d ever met

She refused to be asha it, to keep thinking that she was somehow less than him because she wasn’t sophisticated or beautiful or polished enough She’d had enough of Frankher insecurities “All I want is to spend the surandfather I really don’t see why that should be any of your business,” she said softly

“I am Giovanni’s friend I a, social cli to protect Giovanni and his interests It iswith him”

“What have I done that offends you so much?”

“You see an oldbut welco if you truly are who you claim to be”

“So now I’er of the worst kind but also an impostor?”

“All evidence points to it, si”

Pia fisted her hands, the urge to strike that sh her “Gio’s lover, Lucia, was e row and settled in the States My parents died when I was three and she raisedall over “I found Lucia’s letters to him after she died and called him That’s the truth”

“It’s also true that he’s given you thousands of dollars in the one month you’ve been here”

If only the ground could open up and s her whole! Mortification filled her cheeks

She couldn’t even be mad at Raphael, because froreedy woman But to be so cynical as to question her wholeItaly…? “Gio wouldn’t have told you,” she mumbled half to herself

“I keep an eye over Gio’s finances His three ex-wives learned it was better to live hat he provides them than to take me on”