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Gian

"It's just so belittling,” Elise continued to rant. “I really didn't expect to hear that from him. I told him about what happened to my mother, right? I mentioned it to him before. And that b-bastard acted like he c-cared. Turns out, it wasn't true."

I sobered up. Yes, she did mention that a while back. She told Brandon about her German father to explain her mestiza appearance without revealing who the German was. I also know the story of Fritz von Schiller.

Fritz was twenty-nine when he first set foot in the Philippines. He came here to take a break, have a big rest, after his first bout with cancer at the young age of twenty-nine. The Lehmann, Von Schiller, and Verrazzano families were friends and had business in Manila, so he chose to recuperate in the country. Fritz was close to Friedrich Lehmann, as they were both engineers. Friedrich was also friends with my dad, Angelico Verrazzano. My dad was close to Fritz's older broth