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23_ The Thing With Rosa
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Leo looked at his uncle with his short-cropped hair and a face full of stubble and his father with his round rim glasses and protruding stomach and felt a cold sweat break out in his back.
For the last ten minutes, he had been trying to pitch a business idea to his father, but his uncle kept sabotaging him.
Was this what Alberto meant by my father and Rosa were working together.
At first, he had not believed it but seeing how Uncle Stefano kept finding loopholes in his plan. He had no choice but to lay rest to its possibilities.
He needed to do something, Leo thought at this rate, he will never be able to convince his father about introducing a wine brand with a mash-up of their local grapes and foreign ones with his uncle by his side and sabotaging him.
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