Unexpected Pleasures

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She couldn’t get her head around the enormity of what Carlo had done. But they were different from other men, these Sardinian men. They lived by a different code; theirs was a paternalistic society, and the belief in their right to order the lives of their families absolute.
    When Carlo had told her about Gabriel’s mother she had seen that he did not share her shock that Gabriel’s father should seek to force his daughter into a marriage of his choosing.
    ‘No wonder she ran away,’ she had
...commented.
    Carlo had frowned at her and shaken his head. ‘She was fortunate that her father forgave her and that he was powerful enough to persuade Luigi to marry her despite the humiliation she had forced on him.’ ‘But to make her marry a man she did not love—’ ‘It was his right as her father.’ ‘And forcing her to abandon Gabriel, her baby? You can’t believe that was right, Carlo.’ ‘Not right, no, but Giorgio was a proud man and the head of our family.
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