Chapter 80: Barbecue on the Mountaintop

Salvatore Casson chuckled. "I've got it. You two just eat." Young people hit it off easily. As they talked, it came out that Gemma Juggins had been pushed around since she was little. It had shaped a habit of clinging to power; all her boyfriends had been either rich heirs or officials' sons. Salvatore said, "Since ancient times, beauty danced with power and money. If a woman couldn't steer her fate, misfortune followed." Both Miranda Thubron's past and Gemma's proved his point. Beauty drew covetous...