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And before I could say anything further, I found myself being pulled up the staircase. I was still feeling awful, but at the same time there was a giddy sense of something else in my stomach.
Alessio was hot on our heels and followed us up to Marco and Juliana’s bedroom.
“Here you go, Cate.” She handed a small box over to me. “I’ll leave you guys to it, but don’t keep us all in suspense too long—come down as soon as you can.”
I took the box, and we walked down the hallway to our bedroom and I sank down on the bed, feeling a little bewildered. “I can’t believe this is happening.”
“Nothing’s happening until you do the test and we know one way or another.”
I nodded. “Okay, here it goes.” I went to the bathroom and returned a couple of minutes later with the test stick.
“How long do we have to wait?” asked Alessio.
“It says three minutes.”
“Okay, I’m timing it on my phone.”
We sat down on the edge of the bed together, holding hands and waiting. “Oh my God, this feels like a lifetime. What if I’m pregnant? What if I’m not?” My mind kept swinging from one possibility to the other.
“Let’s just wait and see.” As usual, Alessio was controlled, and he was more focused on timing the test than on getting carried away thinking about the possibilities.
After a while, two lines appeared. “There’re two lines, Cate. What does that mean?”
“I don’t know…”
“Let me go grab the box.” Alessio rushed into the bathroom and came back with the leaflet from the box. He started reading from the beginning of the leaflet, including all the precautions and warnings, infuriating me with his methodical manner.
“Let me see.” I grabbed it from him. “We don’t need to read the whole instructions—we just need to get to the most important part about what the lines mean.” Alessio was so calm in everything he did, but I didn’t have any patience left and just wanted to find out.
I scanned the instructions. “Oh my God. It says here about two lines. Oh my God…”
“What do they mean?”
“It means we’re pregnant.”
“Are you serious?”
“Absolutely.”
“Are you sure that’s what the instructions say? You haven’t read the whole leaflet properly. Let me take a look.”
“See, it says here we’re having a baby!” I pointed to the relevant section.
Alessio looked at me in shock for a moment. Then he stood, pulled me up from the bed, and whirled me around before kissing me passionately.
I laughed, and he laughed with me. “I can’t believe I’m pregnant.”
As we spoke, I could see him doing calculations in his head, trying to figure out when it had happened. “It must have happened while we were in Italy,” he estimated. “Are you happy, cara?” Alessio said to me quietly, looking deep into my eyes, suddenly serious.
I had no hesitation in replying to him. “Definitely. I can think of nothing better than starting a family with you.”
Since Alessio and I had turned over a new leaf in Italy, I’d found out that he’d been right that day when he had told me that he would want to have me every morning and every night. And I wasn’t complaining. “I know things between us definitely got off to a rocky start. Once we made our peace with each other, no one could deny that this baby was conceived in love. It just took me a while to realize that I loved you.”
Alessio looked intensely at me. “I know things were hard for you at the start. I should have asked you, not your father, to sign the engagement contract. And I should have asked you whether you wanted a baby.”
“You knew I would have said no back then.”
“Yes, I did know that. I also knew you were the one for me—and I had to be sure that you would marry me so that I would be able to show you what I felt for you once we were wed.”
