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“Don’t be.”
“We leave this then? You have the wedding and the baby coming. No good can come from opening up this can of worms with him.”
“I know, Loz. But why does it feel so fucking wrong?”
“Because he’s an evil son of a bitch, D. We know that better than anyone. We confront him and what? Finally put him down after all these years? Because as much as I despise the man…”
“I know,” I agree. The thought of killing our own father is equally abhorrent to us. Despite everything he’s done, it’s as though we’re conditioned to respect him. It was ingrained into us from such an early age.
“So, it’s done?” Lorenzo says.
“Yeah.”
Kat holds up a blanket with baby elephants for me to look at and I nod my approval.
“I’ll let you get back to your afternoon with Kat and we’ll talk later.”
“Lorenzo?” I say before he ends the call.
“Yeah?”
“What was her name?” We at least owe her that.
“Megan.” He ends the call, and I slip my cell phone back into my pocket.
“Everything okay?” Kat asks.
I wrap my arms around her and kiss her forehead. “Yes.”
“Can we buy all the baby elephant stuff?” she asks, resting her cheek on my shoulder. “It’s all white so it’s gender neutral and it’s just too cute for words.”
“We can buy all the baby elephant stuff. I’ll even get you an actual baby elephant to go with it if that makes you happy?”
She shakes her head and wrinkles her nose. “I hear they poop a lot and I think we’ll have our hands full with this little one.” She rubs her hands over her stomach and I slide mine next to hers.
A second later, something nudges my hand. “Did you feel that too?” She laughs as she looks down at her belly.
“Was that the baby?”
“Yes,” she breathes, placing her hands over mine and pressing lightly until I feel another nudge against my palm.
“That’s your daddy, little jelly bean,” she says sweetly, and I get the sense she talks to our kid all the time, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard her before.
Daddy.It makes me feel so many emotions that I didn’t expect — fear and worry as well as a sense of hope and peace that I have never experienced before in my life.
Standing here with her in the middle of the empty store, feeling our baby kicking, I wonder how the hell my life has managed to change beyond recognition in just over a few months. And it’s all down to this woman right here.
Chapter43
Kat
For the last six weeks, I have thrown myself into wedding plans. Dresses. Flowers. Cake. The church. The guest list, even though nobody I know is on it. It consists entirely of Dante’s family and friends, which is fine with me. I don’t have any friends. The only family I did invite was Mia, but she’d couldn’t come all the way from Boston because her husband, Brad, is kind of a dick who never lets her go anywhere.
The irony of that is not lost on me – I mean my husband to be is kind of an asshole who kidnapped me, and who doesn’t let me go anywhere either. But it feels different with Brad. He’s so mean to her, cruel even. I have never even seen him so much as hold her hand affectionately. Mia is a warm ball of sunshine and I have no idea how a grumpy dick like Brad ever managed to snag her. I guess he must have been charming once.
“Are you ready?” Joey’s voice startles me, and I realize I’m staring into space.
I look down at my beautiful white gown and smile. “Yes.”
