I don't deserve you.

Isadora POV

I flushed. Not only had I almost declared my feelings for Jude, but I’d also let it slip that I wanted Simona and Daniele to be ours, not just his. I’d known them for only a month, but I’d been by their side for many years. Hopefully one day they’d be mine in theirs and everyone else’s opinion. “I know they are yours, not mine, not really, but it kind of hurts if you say they are your children as if I don’t care for them.” Jude jerked me toward him, kissing me fiercely. I clung to him, almost breathless, when he finally pulled away.

“I don’t deserve you, Isadora, but my kids... our kids do.”

“I really, really care about them. Even if you never want to have another child, I’ll be okay because I’m going to raise them as if they were my own.”

“I know,” he said quietly. “It’s what I’d do too.”

I searched his eyes. “Have you ever had a paternity test done?” I was fairly sure I knew the answer.

“No,” Jude said.

That one word encompassed so much emotion. Love for Simona and Danie