The Night of Rome by Carlo Bonini

Author:Carlo Bonini
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2018-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

GALLERIA ALBERTO SORDI. NIGHT.

Chiara emerged from the front entrance of Montecitorio, home to Italy’s parliament, a little after midnight. Exhausted but happy, she announced to Sebastiano, who was waiting for her outside the Galleria Alberto Sordi, busily tapping on his iPhone, that she’d managed to get a vote on the wiretapping and surveillance law onto the agenda.

“And so, specifically?” he inquired.

“Prohibition on the publication of content obtained through wiretapping and surveillance until actual indictment, nothing more than a summary in preemptive detention warrants. Narrow interpretation on the use in drafting the sentence on the part of the judge, and absolutely discarded as evidence if the wiretapping and surveillance is conducted outside of the legal guidelines. Limitations on the use of conversations overheard in other investigations. Terrorism, of course, falls outside of these restrictions, you can’t expect any different.”

Samurai was right. When they make their minds up, these people on the left are good at tying things up with a bow on them. Sebastiano brought her quickly up-to-date on the situation. Chiara bowed her head.

“I would have preferred a different solution, but if it’s got to be done, let’s do it.”

She seemed sorry. Hypocrisy? Or authentic regret? There was still something that bound her to Polimeni, something so deep that it sowed in her a degree of uncertainty—she who was usually so decisive.

Later on, after sex, he caught her busily tapping away at her iPhone.

“Secret messages?”

“Public photographs. Just look.”

She handed him her smartphone. Images of young people, Asian and northern European, with expensive purses, high-performance cars, against backgrounds of exclusive hotels and dreamy locations. A procession of young oafs and slutty girls, arrogantly proud of their nothingness.

“What the hell’s that?”

“Rich Kids of Instagram. Some fashionable bullshit. Young billionaires who are determined to inform the world how rich they are, and who can afford things that ordinary mortals can’t even dream of.”

“And you like it?”

“I love it.”

As sleep carried him off, a thought caught him off guard. It had something to do with Chiara’s naïve infatuation with the gilded world of rich idiots. A harmless dream. The fact that she could indulge that whim. His dreams had all been stolen from him. He wanted them back. Was Chiara that opportunity? His one great opportunity for . . . he didn’t even know how to describe the confused tangle of sentiments that for the past few days had been stirring him inwardly. Or maybe he knew all too well. And he was afraid of it.

Change. Change your life, Sebastiano.

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