Chapter 18
Lauro sat at the dining room table across from Werner. They both watched Adele gliding down the terracotta steps of the couple’s comfortable villa that was situated on a hilltop to take in the ocean view.
Werner is a lucky man, he thought. Adele had been quite an attractive young woman, and she had only grown more alluring since her marriage. Werner was devoted to her, and Lauro admired that.
Happy relationships like theirs were a mystery to him. In contentious relationships, it was generally easy to point out the shortcomings of partners, though here in Italy, most people remained committed to marriage by virtue of their religious vows.
Lauro had once vowed to devote himself to Isabella and her happiness. But that had been many years ago, and he had to admit that the memory
