Chapter 24
Okay the party would have rounded off well if a particular bastard had not had straying hands. If there was one thing Verena hated apart from being under the control of someone, it was the fact that men in their world think they could get away with anything they wanted.
So there she was sipping the strong cup of alcohol she had sto... snatched from the men's table in victory, talk about discrimination, after her dance with Leonardo when a man sauntered up to her looking dangerously familiar to the groom. She looked up to the raised platform that had been decorated with beautiful white roses and saw only the pale looking bride to be seated stiffly in her cream dress that looked too tight on her and showed to much cleavage.
Surely the groom had some modicum of respect towards his wife to be and didn't think it was wise to flirt with a woman or grope her minutes later.
