Frustration

Valerio gave her a tight smile. “Arranged marriages happen all the time and back then even more so.”

“Treating women like property.”

“True however,” he acknowledged her comment, “the Castiglione family, in every generation was always the wealthy family. Women would clamor to be the lover of any Castiglione man because it meant a life of security and riches. In a time when food was scarce who bette