He had spent a wonderful day sightseeing with Bruni. In fact he’d never had so much fun with a woman, although she was totally not his type, because he usually preferred the more serious, intelligent woman to a shallow social butterfly like her.
But much to his surprise Bruni had turned out, if not intellectual, at least street-wise and with a huge heart for her friends, and – most important of all – she’d kept him rolling over laughing with her dry remarks and devil-may-care attitude.
After a delightful day, she’d invited him to a party she was hosting for a friend of hers, and had even assured him he’d go completely unnoticed in the crowd of American, British and French soldiers invited.
How could he have said no to such a charming invitation? Now he stood in front of the mirror at th
