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When she first fell to them, I had to get her up. I couldn’t stand the vision of her kneeling before me, begging me. It was soblatantly sexual that I had to move her, or I’d be thinking about her in that position for years.
I already pulled her memory up far too often when I needed release. I don’t need to add any more fuel to that fire.
It’s Gia’s screech that makes me realize there’s more.
“Caterina,” she says, her voice urgent but with a kindness that Gia rarely shows. “What are you saying?”
Caterina looks at Gia, eyes wide. “Our daughter,” she whispers again.
Daughter.
Our daughter.
Ourdaughter.
Gia looks at me then, her eyes wide with shock. “Elio.”
“What?” I snap.
“Did you hear what she’s saying?”
“I…”
Our daughter.
I do understand then.
The shock that I had previously felt is nothing compared to this. My bones feel rattled. The earth around me shifts, like the world itself is changed with the knowledge I now have.
I have a child.
I have a daughter.
Caterina and I have a daughter.
Together.
“How…” my voice trails off as Gia shoots me a glare.
“I’m pretty sure you know how, dumbass,” she snips. Her arms go around Caterina, who is sobbing in great, silent heaves on the floor.
“Caterina, hush. You have to help us. You have to tell us more. Where is she? What’s her name? How can we find her?”
Caterina shakes her head, clearly unused to sharing this information.
My shock dissipates, slowly replaced by something else.
Rage.
“You hid a child from me?” I mutter. The words are little more than a growl. Caterina looks up at me with vivid fear, and Gia glares at me.
“Elio,” Gia says with a shake of her head. “Not now.”
Not now.
Not. Now.
“Not now?” I repeat in that same rage-crusted voice. “Not now? If not now, then when, Gia? When was she going to tell me that I had a child? When would she tell me that I was a father? Because clearly it was not going to be now, nor was it going to be ever.”
