As Alessia lowers herself into a chair beside the wedding table, Veronica violently yanks the chair away.
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Chapter 23 - VERONICA’S SECOND BUSINESS
Veronica eventually stopped trying to regain San Vittore.
At forty-six, she launched a national luxury-events company with Christian as minority investor.
No Costanzo name.
Within five years, revenue exceeded what she had earned at San Vittore.
She called Alessia once.
“You know what’s annoying?”
“What?”
“You were right.”
“About?”
“I didn’t need the estate.”
Alessia said:
“I know.”
Unbearable.
Then Veronica hired independent auditors annually.
Not because trauma transformed her into saint.
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Because investors required it.
Sometimes systems create virtue more reliably than remorse.
