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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 11:09 am
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It had been several days since the end of the April fourth party. There has been much gossip circulating about many of the faces who had attended. Even a few about Gigi herself. Though they usually included talk about Edon as well.
Let them talk.
They weren’t doing anything wrong. In fact, they were correcting a grave wrong that had been done to them so many years ago. When she was with the Machiavelli Gigi felt genuine happiness. Something she hasn’t felt in so very long. Normally one would think that one’s family could bring them happiness but that was far from the truth for the Della Passaglia. Perhaps if she had been able to marry Edon and the family was theirs things would be different.
But everytime she looked at her children, her grandchildren, she saw Claudio. Memories of him came flooding back. Memories of their arranged marriage, how he had treated her, when she forced him into Torpor. Perhaps that one was just a little happier than the others. She had freed herself of him but she was never truly free. And then, just as suddenly as he had been thrust into her life he was gone. Final death had come for him and she was finallt free of him. There marriage to outsiders may have looked ideal but in truth it was anything but. For a long time Gigi was to be seen but not heard. To bare his heir and children for him.
However, she may have been free of him but she was not free of his business dealings. One of which she was looking to resolve today as she waited in the main foyer of the Dells Passaglia mansion. Besides her stood a pale, dark haired woman with bright green eyes. Valentina. Claudio, long ago, had arranged for Valentina and Matteo to be married. Joining the unrelated assimilated part of their family together as a whole unit now. The girl was smart and charming but deep in her undead heart Gigi hated the deal.Ir brough back so many bad memories of when she found out about her own. And she hated that she had to uphold this deal or their family would loose out on much to be gained by the marriageZ it was iron clad and try as she might, the Della Passaglia head could find no way to get her grandson out of it.
So she had tried to push the golden haired heir to Valentina. Keeping them close together as children. Making friends out of them and he had hoped that one day feelings would blossom for Matteo but they never did. Instead, he insisted on hanging around Riccardo Puttanesca’s only son and heir. The only thing she disliked more than this arrangement was the Puttanesca. A bunch of I'll-tempered gangsters who did every kind of shady deal one could imagine. Their head was especially vial. It would do no good to have her family consorting with them. It was bad enough they had had to trade Gabrielle to them in an exchange. Another deal that Gigi had not agreed with.
She began to pace slightly. Matteo had been gone this whole time he was bound to show up eventually. Such as it were, Gigi had spent just about every day waiting here in the foyer for his return. She would jump him the second he walked through that door. She was ready for him. For the fight that she ultimately knew was going to occur
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 11:11 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 11:12 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 11:13 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 11:14 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 11:15 am
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