Chapter 40
Duchy of Aragoni
Marco
THE FOLLOWING WEEK at the hospital began, as they nearly always did, without fanfare. I spent three days a week keeping office hours and the other two helping out in the Emergency Room and other departments as needed. Father called me Wednesday afternoon to tell me that he and Angelina were going to fly down to Trento so that he could meet her adoptive family and they could sign off on the necessary permission forms, which would allow the opening of the crypt containing her mother’s body.
“This will be much better,” he said, “than doing it in the dead of night, so to speak—which I was prepared to have done, if necessary.”
“I agree. Do you have everything you need from Dani?”
“Oh yes. He was very thorough in his instructions. He wants the team to make
