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o to your brother?" she asked,

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arry his brother. She was only doing it to save her stepmother. Why would

ng about, what love?

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ct marriage. She was to live with Ammitel till he died to give him some sort of comfort. Maybe a child if that ever happened. There was never love in the picture. It was all business. What was he on about? She was torn between defending herself from

o a dark room and locked her in it. She banged the door, screaming for him to open it, but he ignored her screams and walked to the sitting room. In the sitting room, he lit up a cigar and

ced to twenty years in an unknown government prison. Ammitel had come to save him. He had exchanged his confinement with ammunition. He offered to give the Italian government two steel domes if they agreed to let him go, and they had agreed. He was set free and deported from Italy. He stayed in California since then, away from crime and other vices.

The family was a real mess. When he had told Abel Sham he was getting married to his daughter in place of his sickly brother, he didn't care as long as the wedding was taking place. He had concluded there and then that they were in it for the money. And oh, h