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“Do you know the baby’s sex yet?” Luna asked.
In response to this Mia pressed her lips together.
“Wait. Do you know? Mia Russo, I swear to God, you’d better tell me. You know I hate secrets.” She considered what kind of persuasion was appropriate to use on a pregnant woman—probably something involving buffalo chicken waffle wraps.
“We just found out at our appointment yesterday.” Her cousin-in-law could hardly contain herself. “A girl.”
The women squealed together in happiness.
“Do you still want a colorful nursery?” Luna asked.
“Yes. I want to do something that incorporates a Mexican art aesthetic.” She pulled out her phone and retrieved an image of white fabric that had large embroidered birds made up of bright blocks of color and bordered with black. With this, Luna was hit with a flicker of inspiration.
“Can you send me that image? I’ll start putting together a Pinterest board for us to serve as our inspiration. What if we repainted the walls white but we had these pops of color as artwork, similar to these birds? And the accent color can be gold, like using gold and black frames.” It was all coming together for her and the excitement was becoming contagious if Mia’s face was any indication.
“Now you’re reading my mind. I love it. I knew you’d be great at this.”
“How did Ross take the news?” Aanya asked.
“Honestly, he’s so excited about having a kid, I think he would have been just as happy if the doctor told him,Congrats, your kid is a block of cheese.But we’re thinking Victoria for the name, after your grandfather.” Mia rubbed Luna’s arm.
“You’re not going to name her after your mom?” She was surprised the baby was being named after Victor, especially since Mia had been close with her mom when she was alive.
Her cousin put her hand over her stomach. “She just feels like a little Tori.”
“Have you told the judge?” Aanya asked.
“I talked to him last night,” Mia replied. “I have a feeling he’s going to be one of those grandfathers who has a million pictures on his phone and shares them with everyone. I am apologizing to the city of Placerville now and to Ross because my dad will probably be over a lot more now that he’s semi-retired.”
The judge was Mia’s gruff, stern father. Luna preferred it when he wasn’t around as she didn’t like the guy very much since he’d never treated Ross as well as he should. Him visiting all the time was one more reason she was glad she didn’t live there anymore. She could visit the tiny family and spoil the baby but she’d have her own wonderful sanctuary to return to.
“Have you thought about a baby shower?” Aanya asked.
“Natalie wants to give me one but so does my mom’s family that lives in Sacramento.”
“There’s no reason you can’t have two showers.”
“Well, I might have to. I don’t want to disappoint anyone.”
The truth was, Luna should have been first in line to give a shower but eager-beaver Natalie had jumped in, not that she had a big enough place to host such an event. Regardless, Luna was disappointed it wouldn’t be her.
“Will you go with me to my family one in Sacramento, Lu? You don’t have to if you don’t want to, but you’re family and it would be fun to make the drive with you.”
Ha! Take that, Natalie—Unless, of course, Mia had already asked her and was turned down. “Is Natalie busy that day?”
“Oh, I don’t know. I didn’t ask. Do you not want to go?”
Luna smiled, a warmth passing through her at being chosen. “No, I’ll go. We can discuss nursery designs and stuff.”
This drew another side hug from Mia. Luckily, the phone rang, giving her a reason to pull away as a lot of affection made her uncomfortable, as if she couldn’t believe she deserved it. “I’ll get it.” She went behind the glass cabinets, snatching the wireless phone on the fourth ring. “Lanza Fine Jewelry.”
The other end was silent.
“Hello?” she said.
A throat was cleared on the other end. “Hi. Is this Luna?”
Luna picked at her chipped nail polish. They needed a redo after the projects she’d been doing lately. “Yes, it is.”
