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‘I was an heiress Ciccio targeted e,’ the brunette declared with a ist of her lips, ‘and I paid a steep price for being young and silly He was unfaithful from the outset but I closed my eyes to it because while my father was alive divorce seeed our son’s reputation down into the dirt with his own did I finally see the light’

‘The scandal in the newspapers?’ Holly slotted in with a frown, fascinated by the elegant brunette’s candour

‘I could not forgive Ciccio for saving himself at Vito’s expense’

‘Vito wanted to protect you’

‘That hurt,’ Concetta confided tautly ‘It hurt me even more to see Vito falsely accused and slandered but it also let me see that he was an adult able to handle the breakdown of his parents’ ed fresh start’

‘It’s never too late,’ Holly said war dark eyes randmother’s

Concetta confided that she regularly took the flowers fro theed a flower in her life and urged the older wo herself Vito’sthe flowers for the house and the tomen parted on comfortable, friendly terms

Holly spent what re to think about the evening ahead Thinking about it wasn’t going to change anything Apollo was Vito’s friend and he thought highly of him, she re of the reality that he

r husband seehly than he rated his wife

Vito collected her in a limo He wore a sleek dinner jacket ‘I usedas she cliant’

But as soon as Holly arrived at the restaurant and saw the other to in the frock departirlfriend, Jenna, wore a taupe silk dress that plunged at both back and front and was slit to the thigh, while Jeremy’s wife, Celia, wore a short fitted scarlet dress that showed off her very shapely legs Holly i outfit, wishing that at the very least she had chosen to wear soe

While the men talked, Celia shot inquiries at Holly and it was no surprise to discover that the highly educated and inquisitive redhead was a criround and educational deficiencies winkled out and exposed made Holly feel very uncomfortable but her attempts to block Celia’s questions were unsuccessful and she was forced to half turn away and chat to Jenna to escape the interrogation Jenna, however, talked only about spa days and exclusive resorts

‘You’ve never been on a ski slope?’ she remarked in loud disbelief

‘I’ll teach Holly to ski,’ Vito sliced in, slass

Holly paled because the idea of racing down a snowy hill at breakneck speed made her feel more scared than exhilarated As the entire conversation round the table turned to ski resorts and talk of everyone’s ‘best ever runs’, she was excluded by her unfaa classes and meditation were anic, natural diet, ensuring that Holly felt more and more out of her depth She was also bored stiff