As Alessia lowers herself into a chair beside the wedding table, Veronica violently yanks the chair away.
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Chapter 19 - VERONICA RETURNS TO SAN VITTORE
Four years after the wedding, San Vittore opened management bidding again.
Veronica applied.
People assumed automatic rejection.
Not fair.
Her prior governance failures mattered.
So did remediation.
Her consultancy had clean audits.
She completed ethics training.
No new incidents.
Then proposal quality:
Strong.
Conflict structure:
Much better.
She offered to license the Costanzo at San Vittore brand separately at independently appraised rate.
No personal vendor company inside management.
No related-party contract fragmentation.
Independent controller.
She came second.
Another firm won by a narrow margin.
Veronica cried.
May you like
Then congratulated them.
That was more growth than winning would have shown.
