"There's something about Mattia that is off." I'm spooned in Alessandro's arms, his fingers trailing lazy circles on my stomach. I don't exactly want to discuss his uncle in post coital bliss, but I just can't let go of the nagging feeling that he's here to cause trouble. "That's because Mattia is an asshole." Alessandro sniffs my hair and lays a tender kiss on my bare shoulder. "He has a chip on his shoulder and too much to prove." I turn around to face my husband and trace his thick eyebrow with my index finger. "Why does he have a chip on his shoulder?" Alessandro catches my finger and kisses the palm of my hand, laying it on his chest over his beating heart. "He was never really part of the family. My grandfather had an extra-marital affair with a much younger woman from another city. All he did was throw money at the woman, not exactly being a dad to the guy." "When did he join the mafia?" "Probably in his teens like me. I do think he was a bit disappointed that I took ove
I don't want to leave the island. Leaving means we have to face reality again. Back to Alessandro negotiating the terms of the pharmaceutical company's sale, Mattia plotting whatever the hell he's plotting, and Kaito still on the loose. I hope Alessandro is right, I really hope Kaito sees the newspaper article about the wedding and that he would come to his senses. And then I'm still planning on killing Raquel. I have to wait for the right moment to do that, though. So Alessandro better get the deal, I kill Raquel, and we live happy ever after. "I promise we'll have an extended honeymoon." Alessandro kisses the back of my hand after we take our seats on the private jet. "Preferably when I'm not pregnant and looking like a cow." I scoff. "You're beautiful." My husband smiles that panty-dropping smile that he better only reserves for me. "He wouldn't have married you otherwise." Trey jokes from the seat opposite us. "Still can't believe you're married, man." I narrow my eyes at
I pinch myself for the third time today. How did I get so lucky? All around me, our friends and family are laughing and drinking, and my heart is completely full. The food Alma and I prepared came out excellent, and both Alessandro and Dario thanked us for it. Dario even said it was like having his mother there. I almost cried at that. Stupid hormones. Alessandro has been clinging to me, not that I mind. I'd bake biscotto and tiramisu every single day if I can keep that look of utter adoration in his eyes when he looks at me. "Check it out, my princess!" T.J. rushes up to me and shows me the drone his father helped to assemble. Yeah, I did get him the drone, and Thomas doesn't look very happy about it, but he can stick it. "Wow!" Alessandro exclaims. "That's really cool!" T.J. smiles proudly. "This can be one of my spy devices when I take care of the babies." I smile at that. He's got it in his head that he will become the bodyguard of the triplets. I think it's the cutest t
Alma, the supposed fucking journalist, is more like an assassin than a person who used to write news articles for a living. I'm not really all that surprised because before getting pregnant, Thomas was training me too. The bunker looks like a small apartment, and I follow Phoebe with my eyes, who walks over to the fridge in the small kitchenette. "Are we preparing for a world war or something?" She mumbles as she scours the cabinets, too. The fridge and cabinets are fully stocked. There's another door, and Alma picks T.J. up. "Hey, would you a big boy for mommy and watch some cartoons in the bedroom through there?" I follow behind her, and she opens the door to a bedroom that has six beds in it. This place is prepared! She kisses T.J. and puts headphones over his ears with a tablet that she gets from one of the cabinets. "What the hell is this place?" I ask her as soon as she closes the door. "It's a safe house. There are five more over the city." She goes to sit behind a tiny
It's the first night I don't sleep in a while.I stare at Phoebe and Kevin, tightly huddled together on the small bed, and I eventually give up and get up . I find Alma in the living area watching a trashy reality show. "Can't sleep?" She asks me and switches off the T.V. I shake my head. "No. You?" She gives me a tiny smile. "I'm always restless whenever Thomas is out on a mission. Until he gets back." Until he gets back alive, is what she's leaving out. I hate just being a sitting duck, not knowing what's happening out there. "How do you do it?" I plop down next to her on the couch, looking at the rings on my finger. "How do you not go crazy?" "Who says I'm not crazy?" She smirks at me. "But T.J. keeps me sane. Whatever happens, I still have that boy who depends on me." I lay my hands protectively over my stomach. I don't want to raise my kids without their father, but if that's what I have to do, then that's what I have to do. "I've always known Thomas's job is dangerous."
"We're going on an adventure!" T.J. whispers to me, his eyes wide with excitement. I wish I could share in his joy of going to yet another place, but I don't. This is not what I envisioned Christmas for us to be. I didn't even get to give Alessandro his present. At this point, we might as well become a traveling circus. "How long are we disappearing for this time?" I ask Thomas, the irritation clear in my voice. "You do realize that I'm pregnant with triplets, right? That I have to see my doctor every second week?" I know they know this, and I'm sure they've taken this into consideration. But we're not at a place where I can just pack up and go to wherever Alessandro thinks it will be safer. "We're staying in the city this time." Thomas informs us. "We have various places set up in case of emergencies." It must be the safe houses Alma told me about. "What about my doctor?" I need to know. I have to see her after New Year's. "Will I be able to go to her?" "Alma will monitor your
It's the second night I don't sleep. Because Alessandro has not made an appearance yet. I'm worried and slightly pissed off. How hard can it be to just send me a text and let me know he's okay and fucking alive?This time, I don't even have Phoebe with me for company, but I'm elated that Kevin finally pulled his head out of his ass so she can stop being insecure about where she stands with him. Being with a powerful man sometimes sucks because they're almost never around. I suddenly miss school, because at least then I had something for me. Definitely going back to school as soon as I get the chance. Or when the triplets are a bit older. I'm not going to sit around for the rest of my life waiting on Alessandro to come back from whatever adventure he finds himself on.I hear a commotion coming from downstairs, and I immediately reach for the gun under my pillowcase. I won't be caught unarmed ever again. I quietly get out of bed and get in behind the door. I don't know if the triple
ALESSANDRO Long after Farrah falls asleep, I stare at her with my hand on her tummy, my three sons moving inside her. They do that every night when she's sleeping. I smile. I hope it's not an indication of what's to come. I read that they tend to sleep during the day because the mother is moving more, lulling them to sleep. I've never been so equally happy and terrified in all my life. I'm scared something will happen to Farrah and the babies every single second of every minute of every hour. I've just lost my parents in the blink of an eye. What if all the bad deeds, all the people I've hurt and killed, what if all that somehow comes back to me and steals the one person I don't see myself living without? A now familiar ache starts in my chest as I think of my mother and father. I can still taste the fear on my tongue as I saw my mother lying in an alley in a pool of her own blood, barely breathing. I should've known then that I wouldn't find my father in a better condition, y