I'm sorry, but can't you see my perspective? I said I'd distance myself from her, but she's carrying a child and needs support. You see, her husband's never around.
He acted like he was torn between Silvana and me just because she was with child, but time and again, he proved he always chose her.
On our wedding day, what did he do? He left the reception. Left me standing in the hall of the Valente estate in my white dress while the guests whispered behind their hands, because Silvana had called, upset after a fight with Enzo. On our anniversary, he walked out of the restaurant because she was "panicking" during a thunderstorm, and she needed him, and apparently the Marchetti soldiers who guarded her home weren't enough. On my birthday, she let him know the Ricci family's last remaining business had turned a profit, and he went to celebrate with her instead of sitting across from his own wife.
Every holiday, he tried to keep things balanced by getting gifts for me and for his former love. As if fairness in gift-giving could paper over the fact that his heart had never left the old neighborhood.