The Secret of the Wedding Ring: The Story Buried by Fate
Beatrice spoke with a warm, trembling voice: “Elena, Stefano has protected you all his life from a pain that belonged only to his past. When we were children, our family was separated by tragic legal and personal tribulations after the death of our parents. I was entrusted to relatives abroad, and for decades our attempts to trace us failed due to registry and bureaucratic errors.”
Stefano looked me in the eye and explained the reason for all that secrecy: “Beatrice was seriously ill when bureaucracy separated us in the 1970s. That photograph was the last memory we had of her before she disappeared. For fifty years, I prayed every single day to be able to embrace her memory again, but I didn’t want to deceive you or make you suffer with a search that seemed desperate.”
In recent months, a private investigator Stefano had secretly hired had finally managed to find Beatrice, who had returned to Italy after spending her entire life abroad, eager to reconnect with her past.
