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But the way Pia looked at hi emotion from the depths of her warm brown eyes, for the first tie, unease settled in his chest

If all the trappings of his wealth and status were re need not to become his father or share his fate were removed, then as he at his core? Without the shame he felt for his father’s failure, the bitterness brewed for years by his mother’s careless callousness, the cynicisra’s affairs—as he then?

Had Gio ever wondered if that h for his precious Pia Alessandra Vito?

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

NOTHING, IT SEEMED to Pia, had gone right the day of her engagement party to Raphael

The ht amount of chill in the air Pia’s usual breakfast with Gio on the small veranda, the perfect start to her day, hadn’t happened because he’d been interrupted yet again by a call from one of his sisters and he’d left immediately

Pia had begun to dislike Thea Rosa quite a bit, for she see Giovanni with all kinds of escapades at her old age

So she’d breakfasted alone All her rown into an insurmountable obstacle

The toast she’d had sat in her tu And since she hadn’t been paying attention, she had accidentally spilled hot water over her fingers and scalded herself

What, or rather who, she really wanted was Raphael They hadn’t seen each other for a fortnight and Pia felt quite a juvenile resentment that his business always seemed to take him ahen she needed him the most

Just as he’d been unavailable the day she’d realized her period was three weeks late and had freaked out After the first night with Raphael, she’d ione on the pill He was the one she wanted to freak out and panic with, since he partly shared the blanant But no, Raphael had been in blasted Tokyo negotiating a new trade agree company