"So who do you think she is?" Henry opened his eyes wide.
"She's one of his floozies, of course. Tall, blond, and so stupid you start to eat your desk in desperation if you have to talk to them for five minutes on end. They're all like that." He shrugged. "I guess he got bored with her, for once finds it difficult to shake her off, so he offers her a job in Florence." He changed his voice to a high-pitched sing-song, "Wonderful city, my dear, you'll work in a fabulous four star hotel, oh, so exclusive, a gorgeous historical Palazzo," Peter drew his hand through his hair again and returned to his normal voice. "And I don't even know if she speaks Italian, for God's sake!" He beat the top of the bar with his fist.
Henry shook his head. "He wouldn't send you a secretary who doesn't speak Italian, Peter. Even Garibaldi can't do that."
Peter lifted his eyebrows. "Oh, wouldn't he?" He grabbed a tooth pick from a white porcelain holder next to his elbow and started to turn it around in his fingers. "Those bimbos are barely able to speak their mother language, let alone any other!"
"Maybe she's Italian," Henry said.
Peter shook his head. "No way." He twiddled the tooth pick in his fingers. "Not with a name like that." He stared at the glossy table top in front of him.
"Come on, don't keep me in suspense." Henry nudged his arm. "What's her name?"
Peter looked at his friend and drew a grimace. "Elizabeth Tiffany Mary Anne Smith." He drew out each word. "Doesn't sound Italian to me." The tooth pick snapped in two between his fingers. "And she's never worked in a hotel in all her life."
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A New Life by Beate Boeker
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1I
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4I
Chapter 5I
Chapter 6I
Chapter 7I
Chapter 9I
Chapter 10I
Chapter 11I
Chapter 12I“Oh, Commissario
Chapter 13HE KILLED HIS MOTHER FOR THE MONEY!ARREST OF SON IN TOWER MURDER!TOWER MURDER: IT WAS THE S...
Chapter 14I
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