As Alessia lowers herself into a chair beside the wedding table, Veronica violently yanks the chair away.
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Chapter 24 - MY SISTER GETS MARRIED
Alessia married at thirty-five.
Small ceremony.
She refused San Vittore.
Not because fear.
Because she wanted a coastal inn in Maine.
Her husband, Samuel Hart, was a civil engineer.
I investigated him?
No.
I wanted to.
Did not.
Growth.
Then seating.
Alessia placed Veronica near the front.
I noticed.
Said nothing.
During dinner Veronica approached her chair.
Stopped.
Raised both hands.
“Permission?”
Alessia laughed.
“Sit down.”
May you like
That joke belonged to them now.
Not me.
