Anna and Isabella, on their way to the dessert table, overheard her. They flashed their new sister-in-law bright smiles but when they’d moved past her, they rolled their eyes.
“Married,” Izzy said, with a snort. “I came within an inch of telling her the reason.”
“Me, too.” Anna looked at a silver platter of cannoli, sighed and slid first one of the rich pastries, then another, on a plate. “Why would a woman be foolish enough to tie herself down to a man?”
“Too many cannoli aren’t good for you,” Izzy said primly, and snatched one from Anna’s plate with her fingers. “As for marriage… It’s fine for Chiara and Gaby and Elle. And now for Alessia.”
“But not for us,” Anna said, with self-righteous conviction. “Never, ever.”
Izzy licked a bit of ricotta from the tip of her pinkie. “I’ll drink to that,” she said, reaching for a flute of champagne.
Anna reached for one, too. “Salute,” she said, and the Orsini sisters touched glasses, grinned, and each drank down the fizzy stuff in one unladylike gulp.
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NICOLO: THE POWERFUL SICILIAN
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