13
Lago di Como, 2010
High on a bedroom balcony of Villa Fiori overlooking the lake, Ariana watched as Alessandro arrived and moored his bobbing craft beside their dock. He’d brought Paolina and the children, and another man that Ariana assumed was his sister’s husband.
Laughter floated upstairs from the gathering below. Ariana had been helping Livia in the kitchen, but as soon as Ariana had seen Alessandro’s yacht pulling alongside, she’d raced upstairs like a teenager to avoid him.
Yesterday, she’d made a fool of herself. Not only a fool but a rude, inconsiderate, obnoxious fool. Those were Ruby’s scathing words, and Ariana knew she deserved every one of them. Had her relationship with Phillip ruined how she looked at men?
Not that she was in the market to replace Phillip so quickly
