Chapter 29 I've Got Her

Alyssa Russo's POV

My eyes run through all the familiar faces. Once everyone is here, we’ll get out the cake for Anne and sing and have her blow out candles. The adults will have drinks and catered food, and the kids pizza.

It’s perfect.

It’s so perfect that it almost makes my heart hurt.

“Amore?”Brady says, noticing my expression.

I wipe away a tear. “It’s just a lot.”

“A lot of what?”

“A lot of things that I never thought would be possible for us.”

He squeezes my hand, and I hold it tight.

“Also the pregnancy hormones,” I say around the tightness in my chest.

Alessandro laughs. “Also those.”

I haven’t told him the whole story yet. When I found out I was pregnant, a few weeks ago, I showed him the test and he almost exploded with joy.

The way he responded when I said I’d marry him, that I loved him, when he told Anne he was her father, and when I told him that I was pregnant… Nothing makes Alessandro happier than family.

Being together.

And being whole.

The pregnancy test was as happ