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“Today was perfect.” I sigh contentedly as I lie in his arms.
“It was,” he mumbles sleepily.
“After my mini anxiety attack in the car anyway.” I laugh as I nestle my cheek against his chest.
His muscles tense. “What anxiety attack?” he asks, suddenly alert now.
“Oh, it was nothing. I was being silly,” I say dismissively hoping he won’t press me further.
“You having an anxiety attack on our wedding day isn’t nothing, Kat.”
“It wasn’t exactly a full-blown anxiety attack. I just freaked out for a minute.”
“Freaked out about what?” he asks as the muscles in his body grow tenser.
How the hell do I tell him that I was worried he was going to kill me and our unborn baby before we got to the church?
“Kat?” he asks again, his voice dropping an octave and sending a shiver through my bones.
“When the car detoured, I panicked a little. Then I saw Mia and I almost burst out crying with happy tears instead. It was a wonderful surprise, and so thoughtful. Thank you.”
He completely ignores the latter part of what I just said. “Instead of what?”
“Huh?”
“You almost cried happy tears instead of what? Why did you have an anxiety attack, Kat?”
I shudder at his tone. It’s that don’t make me ask you again one he has that makes grown men weep and the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. “I just thought… just for a moment… Joey was acting strangely and wouldn’t tell me where we were going…and those guards of yours might as well be mute…”
“Kat!”
“I thought of your ex-fiancée and I wondered —”
“If I was going to murder you and our child?” he interrupts me, his tone clipped and dripping with anger.
That sounds so awful when he says it aloud, but I’m not going to apologize for feeling that way. The truth is he did murder Nicole Santangelo right before their wedding.
“I still know so little about what happened between you and her, Dante. I panicked. This morning I didn’t know for certain whether you really wanted this with me, or you felt obligated because I got pregnant.”
“We got pregnant,” he snaps.
“Then tonight, you said that it wouldn’t have mattered and we’d be together anyway and I believe you. But this morning… I was emotional and I just wanted to get to the church to see you. It was just a moment of panic, that’s all.”
He squeezes me tighter, sliding one hand to the back of my neck and holding me against him.
“Get some sleep, kitten,” he says softly.
Chapter46
Dante
AGE 25
The sound of my younger sister, Joey, squealing with laughter as she passes the dining room makes me smile. I have no idea what she’s laughing about, but the sound has been so rare lately that I almost forgot that she knew how to laugh. Certainly since our father allowed her to come live here with Lorenzo and me, she has been much happier.
A second later, Maximo’s head pops around the open doorway. “They’re here,” he declares.
“Then show them in,” I say with a heavy sigh.
