The Devil Hates Latin, CH, 4,5,6

By Katharine Galgano (See chapter 1,2,3 Here) CHAPTER 4 Dyson White regarded his wife stoically as she moved among the pots on their rooftop terrace. It was an early spring morning in the Eternal City, and Michelle Orsini White was in a good mood. An avid gardener, his diminutive, dark-haired wife had managed through sheer persistence to interest her husband in the tomato vines growing up through her trestles, and the pots of mint and basil interspersed between her glowing spring flowers. Every morning, he knelt by her side, carefully weeding, watering and re-potting. The fresh smell of the earth and the herbs rose from the pots; spring sunlight glinted off the cloudy green Tiber far below. It was critical that Dyson take an interest in something, to Michelle’s mind. Since his release from a US federal penitentiary in Texas two years before, the tall, laconic 57-year old ex media and publishing tycoon hadn’t reacted much to anything except for a rather desultory concern with high papal politics. Nothing else about his business empire interested him; he was resolved to stay in Rome and ‘keep an eye’ on the Papacy. One thing was certain, however.  He’d sworn never to set ...

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