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CHAPTER FIFTEEN
HETOOKHERTOBED.
And he did not close the drapes.
They just lay there, sated and spent, with her head on his chest, his fingers playing idly with her hair, and the steadythump, thumpof their hearts.
Aurora still had many questions, and she could not stop herself asking the important one. ‘Nico, where have you been all day?’ She looked up at him with urgent eyes. ‘And until so late in the night.’
She simplyhadto know.
‘Where do you think I’ve been, Aurora?’
‘You don’t want to know my thoughts. In them you have been to many places.’
‘Okay—where do you think a man goes when the love of his life shows up?’
She went pale in his arms.
‘I went to Silibri to speak with your father.’
‘You have told him that Gabe is yours?’
‘Of course I have.’
Nico was quiet for a moment, for it had taken great restraint not to tear into Bruno and his wife for their treatment of Aurora. He could not stand to think of all they had put their daughter through when she had needed them the most.
But they would soon be family, and he had chosen to remember that.
‘What did he say?’
‘He huffed and puffed,’ Nico said.
‘And Mamma?’
He could hear the anguish in Aurora’s voice.
‘She asked how you were and then she started crying. She asked me what Gabe looked like.’
‘Yet all she had to do to find out was pick up the phone.’
‘Of course,’ Nico said. ‘But they spoke of your dating app…’
Aurora did not laugh.
‘It was confusing for them,’ he said gently. ‘And then your father got out a bottle of—’
‘Limoncello.’Aurora finished his sentence for him.
‘I always wondered why he did not stop speaking to me after I refused to marry you,’ Nico admitted.
‘And me,’ Aurora agreed. ‘I thought your name would be mud in our house, but he kept insisting you join us.’
‘He said he would believe that I had not offended you unless I married someone else. But if I did then all bets would be off.’ He smiled as Aurora laughed. ‘He knew,’ Nico said. ‘He knew, that night when you headed out to the party, that I was churning inside.’
‘I would hope he does not know what occurred on the sofa.’
‘Of course not—or I would be dead. And anyway, a nice girl like you would never…’ He looked over and smiled.
