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Daniel laughs as if he’s said something incredibly funny and my reaction is totally normal, looping an arm around my shoulders and pulling me close. “Laugh,” he orders in my car, a little urgent. “They’ll look away.”

I do as he says, not nearly as good of an actress as he is, but then again he’s had his whole life to practice. But he’s right, after I give a little laugh as if Daniel has said something that’s a little scandalous but ultimately hilarious, his family gives us a couple of confused smirks and then turns back to their business.

When they’ve all looked away, I snap my face back to Daniel’s, my expression totally serious.

“Spill,” I demand. “Now. Tell me everything.” I drain my glass of prosecco, needing to bolster my courage.

Daniel sighs and shakes his head. “I don’t know all of the details, Fay. What I heard is from my Italian cousins when I would go and visit them in Italy, and even what they knew was hushed up. It was apparently a big scandal.”

I nod, urging him to go on as I slip his Manhattan out of his hand and take a sip, deciding I need even more courage. Daniel gives me a little chagrined frown as if he was looking forward to that drink, but he doesn’t take it back.

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a pauper his father, the head of the Lippert family, had been killed, and my mom had nothing. So,

understanding. “But he wasn’t?” I ask, needing

just…” Daniel sighs and looks over to where his dad stands with a group of his

frustrated by his

clope to Rome. But they were caught, and dad was punished, and…” Daniel shrugs, indicating that he doesn’t know much more,

the words together in my shock as I stare at Natalia

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raising Daniel’s drink to my mouth again to take

he asks, looking over at Natalia curiously.

looking? Why she’s doing her utmost to prove that she’s the perfect Italian woman, wife,

Daniel’s eyes g

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