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"A yearer We were at a fundraiser on the mainland I met Alonzo and introduced them" I introduced them

Val squeezed his eyes at the nausea in his stomach

"Focus, Masini How did you uilt from his limbs "At the bar, the auctionI don’t remember We started to talk He told me he was in the wine business, and asked as my lovely wife I corrected hiht it was cute He sent flowers, wineThey started dating It didn’t take long for him to ask me for her hand"

"Archaic"

"Not for me I expected it Alonzo knew I’d been the man of our household for many years I suppose Gabi and I were both honored by his action of asking aret said

"My mother never liked him Said he was too ss of his mother?

"So Gabi liked him, you liked him, then what?"

Val shrugged "We fell into a co for reed He drops anchor on the island often He understands the need for limited access of his crew and has always respected that In what I believed was an effort to woo e My guests enjoyed it, so I added his selections to theanother vineyard’s wine off just to schmooze your sister?"

"We won’t know that until we find out if there are other vendors buying his brand The island goes through many bottles a week, but I don’t think we take all his stock"

"Aren’t there international shipping regulations to juh to buy direct froaret "I hate to sound uninvolved, but I have people for that In the case of Alonzo, he gifted the wine I’ve never paid a dime for any of his bottles The wine shuffles hands in Italy, then makes it to his yachtor his supplier that sometimes came to port with crates of the stuff"

"Do you know the na in? Their captains?"

Val hated that all he could do was narrow his eyes toward Margaret

"Let ood questions, cara Ones I will ask e get home"