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“Are you freaking kidding me? Of course I’m not mad. This is the best news I’ve had maybe ever. Can I hug you?”
“Yes,” I said and laughed as he scrambled across the blanket to give me a big hug.
He pulled me down to the blanket, kissed me, and rubbed my belly. “I’m going to be a father.” He paused and froze. His eyes stilled, and he looked slightly scared.
“What’s wrong?” I asked. “Is everything okay?”
“I just realized I assumed that you were going to keep it, and I guess I don’t really…”
“You’re going to be a father,” I said, holding his hand to mine. “I’m having the baby.”
He burst out into a wide smile again. “I love you, Callie, my sweet little lamb.”
“I know,” I said. “And I love you, too, Antonio, my ferocious wolf.”
He chuckled then. “So, what does this mean?”
“What do you mean, what does this mean?”
“Well, if you’re going to have a baby and I’m no longer going to be don and we both love each other…”
“I don’t know.” I shrugged. “What do you think?”
“I think that you should move in with me and you should marry me and we should have lots and lots of kids,” he said, his eyes searching mine.
“Is that a proposal, Antonio?” I asked, shaking my hair back as I looked up at him.
“If you’ll say yes, it is.” I gasped as he reached into the picnic basket and pulled out a small velvet jewelry box. He flicked it open, and I stared at what must have been at least a three-carat diamond ring. My jaw dropped as he got onto his knees. “Callie Rowney, you came into my life on a dark and gray night. You slipped down a tree into my arms, and I’ve never been able to forget the way you look, the way you smell, the way you argue.” He grinned. “This might not be the most romantic of proposals, and I know we’ve been through a lot already, but I love you. You are now my reason for living, you and our little one who, if it’s a boy, I would like to call Jimmy. But we can talk about that later.”
“Antonio,” I said, laughing. “This is the oddest proposal.”
“Too odd?” he asked, looking nervous.
“No.” I shook my head. “It’s perfect.”
“So, Callie Rowney, the love of my life, the light of my life, will you marry me?”
“Yes,” I said, nodding, my heart bursting with happiness as I stared at him.
He slipped the ring out of the box and onto my finger. “I love you, Callie.” We stood up, and he swung me around and around, and I clung to him and kissed him hard.
“I love you, too, Antonio. I just can’t believe that we’re in this moment here after everything that’s happened. I just can’t believe it.”
“But you want it, right?”
“Of course I want it. I’m the girl that watched a billion romance movies and read a billion romance books. This is the happily ever after that I’ve always wanted, but I never assumed it would actually happen for me.”
“Well, it did and it has,” he said. “I can’t believe that I’m engaged. Who would’ve thought it?”
“I know not me,” I said, laughing. “Can you imagine I’m going to marry Antonio ‘the wolf’ Marchesi, the Mafia boss of the Marchesi famiglia?”
“Well, I was going to give that up for you,” he said.
“I know, but only do it if you really want to,” I said softly.
“I want to,” he said. “I don’t want my child born into this life.”
“So, then, what happens with the famiglia? Is it done? Is it…”
