Duty and Duplicity Book 5 of Poacher s ProgressChapter 9 Tender Blossom
Claudia Garibaldi, along with several guests, arrived at the Villa Agostino the day after my first meeting with Ferdinando Stanley. A great bustle and flurry then ensued, with servants scurrying about, and boxes and travel trunks carried back and forth, and rooms allocated. It was some time before I managed a moment alone with Claudia. I first made an abject apology for my words in Genoa, which she graciously accepted. “Actually, Giovanni, your distaste when discovering the cargo my vessels...