Noah strolled in the gardens with Fulvia Ferranti on his arm, telling her now of their recent search for Penny around the Caribbean islands.
‘That poor child.’ She blinked back tears. ‘Though how lucky she had all of you to search for her so diligently.’
Noah found he liked the woman and wondered what she was doing with Raphael’s father when, from what he’d heard, he treated her so poorly. ‘Indeed, and it saddens me the threat to Sam that brought us here meant we must abandon the other little girl.’
She crossed herself. ‘Yet coming here has brought Francesca to Raffaello. Nina told me he had taken her.’
‘He’s delighted with her. But he finds it difficult to understand why his father did such a terrible thing.’ Noah led her to a stone bench beside a small stand of lemon trees where she
