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I nod slowly, thinking about it.
“So, will you be with me anyway?” Nico asks. “Will you be mine,principessa?”
His words echo in my ears. I never thought that I would hear this coming out of his mouth, and here it is.
I just look at him and he looks back, expectantly.
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“If you really want to get married…” I start, but Aurora cuts me off.
“I don’t care about that,” she says. “I just need to know that this isn’t drugs, so tell me all of this again when you’re off them,” she says.
I sigh shallowly so that I don’t hurt myself. “It’ll be a while before I’m off all of them.”
“I can wait,” she says stubbornly.
So, we wait. We wait until I’m out of the hospital and then she goes to her first ultrasound and tears well in my eyes when I see pictures of the little peanut.
Aurora moves in with the help of Dante and Francesca and sets up my bed in the living room so that I don’t have to go upstairs. We’re sitting in the doctor’s office at her five month appointment. She’s been living with me and taking care of me all this time, even though I’m getting better now.
“Can I tell you now that I love you?” I ask her, and she shakes her head.
“You’re still taking pills,” she argues.
I groan. “Aurora, this is getting ridiculous. You live here. You take care of me every day. We’re together.”
“It doesn’t mean that you love me,” she insists. “It doesn’t mean that you really want me.”
“How could I not want you?” I asked, frustrated as we sit in the doctor’s office. “How could anyone? Didn’t I almost die for you?”
She swallows visibly but then the doctor calls her inside.
I rub my hand along her belly while she waits up on the table, feeling my child kick, and it’s the best feeling in the world. The baby has been kicking for a couple of weeks now, little flutters at first, but they’ve been getting stronger as time goes by, and I love it when my child bumps against my hand.
I hear the strong heartbeat and then the ultrasound tech looks over at us with a little smile.
“Do you want to know the sex?” she asks.
I look at Aurora and Aurora looks back at me. “Do we?” she asks, and I nod.
The tech points to the ultrasound. “It’s a boy.”
“A boy,” I breathe, thinking about all the firsts: first steps, first words. The first time I teach him to ride a bike or drive a car, playing catch, his first drink. There’s so much future to look forward to, and all I want to do is to share it with Aurora. If only she believed how much I love her.
I cry a little in spite of myself, and Aurora leans up to kiss me.
“You’re going to be such a good father,” she says, and I smile.
“You’re going to be the best mother,principessa.”
We head home and it’s finally almost time that we can make love again. We cuddle in the bed and I grow hard behind her, pressing my hips into her ass.
“We can’t,” Aurora complains. “Not until you’re better.”
“I’m better,” I tell her. “I’m down to one of the pain pills a day, even, Aurora, when are you going to let me tell you—”
