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Tony’s hand tightens around me but he doesn’t say a word, letting me continue.
“Kat would always tell me how our mother insisted on us finding a balance. She pushed Papa to find that balance too. There’s a very thin line between good and evil and most of the time we’re either tethering that edge or we’re on the other side entirely. The bad side. I’m not saying you’re a bad person, Tony. I know you have so much light inside of you. But today when you were slicing Dimitri’s skin open, I saw this darkness in your eyes and I hate it. I hated seeing that. I just don’t want you to lose yourself.”
I’m worried he’ll get angry or lash out. But Tony simply smiles before running a hand up my arm.
“You know you’re not the first person to tell me that. I know there’s a darkness in me, baby. But I would never lose myself. Not when I have you and our baby. I’m sorry you had to see me like that today, it’s something that I have to work on.”
“And I’ll help you. Just like my mom did for my dad, I’ll help you find that balance. Because you’re amazing and the most important thing in the world to me apart from our baby.” I inhale softly before saying my next words. “Because I love you.”
His eyes are fixed on mine as he says, “I love you too, Sophia. You have no idea how much. You are my light. The best thing to have ever happened to me. I watched my sister, my friends, the people around me find love. I watched them find soulmates and I thought to myself that it could never be me. I thought it would have been too hard to open up my heart to someone like that. But loving you has been one of the easiest things I’ve ever done, Sophia.”
“It’s easy for me too,” I say. “Crazy that two people with the biggest attachment issues managed to find each other.”
He chuckles. “Us finding each other was always inevitable. Ever since I walked onto the rooftop, I’ve known deep down that you were something special. I knew you were mine. And I know without a doubt that our mothers would have been proud.”
“They would have been so proud of both of us,” I whisper.
He smiles before wrapping his hand around my neck and kissing me.
“I love you, Sophia. Always.”
“Always and forever,” I add. “The road will be long and bumpy. I’ll feel like killing you a lot and you’ll probably feel like ripping your hair out once in a while..”
“But it’s worth it. Forever with you is worth anything in the world. You and our little one,” he says, placing his hand on my stomach.
Forever. Now that’s definitely something to look forward to. We could have easily not ended up here. So many things could have gone wrong but we did end up here. The will of the universe, fate, my father’s stubbornness, his family’s meddling, everything led us to this point.
Staring into his brown eyes, there’s no doubt in my mind that every choice I made to get here, are choices I would make all over again. Every time.
The END
