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“If it’s a duty, then you’re doing it wrong, brother,” Dante retorts.
Lorenzo snorts and his shoulders start shaking, and for a second, I worry that he’s about to have a stroke, but he’s not. He’s laughing. Lorenzo Moretti is laughing.
“Ah, it’s the whiskey,” Anya says to me as I stare at her husband, open mouthed.
Dante stands and takes my hand, pulling me up with him before he scoops me into his arms to a chorus of whistles and cheers that does nothing for my embarrassment levels.
“I can walk,” I whisper.
“I know,” he replies, kissing the tip of my nose before he carries me out of the kitchen and leaves the rest of our family to go on drinking and talking into the night.
I loop my arms around his neck as he carries me up the stairs. He’s not even breathing any heavier with the effort, which is a feat in itself considering how huge I’ve gotten. “Hey, I forgot something,” I tell him.
“What’s that, kitten?”
“I thanked everyone in there, but I didn’t thank you. Not by name. And not enough,” I admit as I stare at him.
“You don’t have to thank me for anything.”
“Yeah, I do. I wouldn’t have any of this without you.”
His brow furrows in a frown, but he doesn’t say anything else until he’s carried me into our bedroom and closed the door behind him. He puts me on my feet and cups my face in his hands. “I need you to know something, Kat,” his eyes narrowed as he stares into mine. “I never thought today would happen for me. I never wanted a wife. Never wanted to be tied to anyone and have to make decisions based on somebody else’s wants and needs…”
“But the baby changed that,” I whisper.
He shakes his head. “Youchanged that. Baby or not, I knew the minute you walked into this house, I could never let you leave. I wanted you. I needed you. And I figured that was enough for me to keep you here forever. But then you went and spent every damn minute of every damn day making me fall in love with you too.”
A sob wells in my throat and I swallow it down. He loves me.
“You never have to thank me, Kat, because you have given me everything. Or maybe I just took it and you didn’t really give it at all, but it’s mine now. You’re mine and I will never let you go. I meant it when I said I would die to protect you and I would scorch this world before I ever let anyone hurt you or our child.”
“You didn’t just take it from me,” I whisper as a tear rolls down my cheek, and he wipes it away with his thumb. “I gave it all willingly. I’m yours, Dante. Only ever yours.”
“Vita mia,” he says softly, his warm breath dancing over my skin and sending a shiver down my spine.
“What does that mean?”
“My life.”
“Vita mia.” I repeat, smiling as I’m filled with a happiness that I thought I’d never feel again. How is it that the devil called Dante Moretti, a man with so much darkness in him, could become the light in my previously bleak existence? “And that other thing you said in your toast?”
“Sei la cosa più bella che mi sia mai capitata?”
“Yes.”
“You are the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”
Wow!“I am?”
“Hmm,” he murmurs as his hands glide down my body, over my huge belly and over the curve of my hips until he’s squeezing my ass in his palms. “Enough talking. I believe I have some duties to take care of.”
“If it’s a duty, you’re not doing it right,” I purr, parroting what he told his brother a few minutes earlier.
“Well, maybe I’ll make you come a few times and then you can tell me if I’m doing it right,” he growls as his fingers easily find the concealed zipper of my dress.
“Oh, you always do it right,” I breathe as he slides the zipper down slowly while he trails soft kisses over my neck.
A few seconds later, my beautiful wedding gown lies in a pool of fabric at my feet. He looks at my cream lace panties and growls his appreciation as he slips his hand inside. “These are sexy as fuck on you. I’m going to buy you a pair in every color.”
