Chapter 91

• Alessio
• With Gemma's help, I had already held several tea meetings with the ladies from the more conservative families, gradually gaining access to the closed mechanism they operated, one that proved to be quite a peculiar challenge for which she was a piece they couldn't quite define or classify properly.
• According to my sister's reports, most of them were delighted that my wife spoke Italian fluently and wanted to understand the complete social context, as well as customs and traditions, in an effort to uphold them. The problem was that the older women, those who held more weight, saw her as an outsider who could be a terrible threat.