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Vittoria

The dining hall laughter hung like a dwindling tune as the house grew still. Carmela made me stay on, saying she required "girl time," which was actually a euphemism for the fact that she wanted to interrogate me about my engagement in the kindest possible manner.

Dante had left with Cassian and Marcello to take a call from one of their men, and I was sitting in Carmela's sitting room, al