Chapter Nineteen Rome, Italy
Adhara seemed distracted to Angel. Since a public meeting in Italy requires the correct bureaucratic procedure, even allowing for Angel’s fame and popularity in the football-crazy country, it needed time to complete the paperwork. The three days spent waiting for the red tape had been trying for them both, with Angel drafting and redrafting his speech.
Adhara, instead, plunged into updating herself on the Italian political situation. The more she read, the uneasier she became. She discovered that Rome was not the best choice of venue in the country for a rally. Last October, the neo-fascist organisation, Forza Nuova, drawing on extensive support in the capital, and hiding its true anti-democratic objectives behind pseudo-social concerns, attacked the CGIL hea
