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“I’m yours,” she assured him. “As long as you want me—”
“That’s going to be forever.”
“Then that’s how long it will be.”
EPILOGUE
SIX MONTHS LATER: AMY
“So the babies will probably wake up in a few hours,” Amy said, checking the emergency contact list once more to make sure she had included every important number.
“Amy, I have your cell phone number,” Mike reminded her. “You know I’ll be able to get in touch with you if we need anything.”
“I know,” she said fretfully.
“We knew the first time leaving the babies was going to be hard,” Adriano said, wrapping his arms around her. “They’re going to be fine, okay? Mike is great with them.”
Amy loved that Adriano already trusted her brother so much. Mike had been staying with them in Lake Como for a week, and though he had been skeptical of Adriano at first, the two of them got along great now. Mike had taken an almost rabid interest in Adriano’s fitness empire, and Adriano had responded by setting him up with a free TrainTech membership and some home equipment of his own.
Tonight was the first night Amy and Adriano had gone out and left their babies with anyone. Amy knew her brother was the best person she could have chosen for the job, that she could trust him fully to take care of her children. That didn’t make it any easier for her to let them out of her sight for the evening.
Adriano held her close. “We’re going to have a fun night,” he reminded her, just a hint of suggestiveness in his voice. It was mild enough that there was a chance Mike might not have picked up on it—except that Amy knew by her brother’s leer thatof coursehe had understood.
But she didn’t really care. Adriano was right. The two of them had been looking forward to this night for a very long time. The fact that they had cemented their romantic relationship right after she’d given birth had made it difficult for them to explore the sexual side of things. It had happened, but between her recovery and the exhaustion that came along with taking care of four young babies, it had been hard. This night off was going to be exactly what both of them needed.
“Go on,” Mike said. “I’m on top of things here.”
“You’ll call me if you need me?” Amy said.
“I will. I promise. Now go!”
Amy allowed Adriano to pull her out the door to the waiting car.
* * *
He’d booked them an expensive stateroom in a luxury villa, and the moment they reached the room, he bolted the door behind them, scooped her up in his arms, and carried her to the massive bed.
Amy gasped into his kiss, completely swept away by how good his lips felt against hers. There had been plenty of time for kissing in the past few months, of course, but it hadn’t been like this. There had been perfunctory kisses in the middle of the night as they’d taken turns on baby duty, and there had been sweet, romantic kisses after time apart when they had returned to one another. Now he was kissing her with purpose, andoh, her body was responding to him in ways she had almost forgotten it could.
She didn’t feel like the mother of quadruplets right now. She felt wanton and wild, like the woman she had been years ago—or perhaps on the first night she had met Adriano, when all of this had started.
She drew back from him and looked into his warm, dark eyes. “I am so glad I came up to your hotel room that night,” she murmured.
Adriano grinned. “Mmm. me too.” He was kissing her neck. “Remind me to always bend the rules of appropriate professional conduct. Best decision I ever made, wouldn’t you say?”
“I don’t think you could have chosen much better, no.” She grinned at him.
He grinned back. “I love a confident woman. Do you know how hot you are right now?”
“Show me.”
He stripped off her clothes slowly, his eyes roving over her body as he revealed it. It was far from the first time he had seen her naked since the birth of the babies, but it was the first time he’d been able to take his time and reallylookat her.
Amy was surprised to find that she didn’t feel shy at all under his gaze. She’d had moments of insecurity since giving birth, noticing the ways her body was different. But it would have been impossible to fake the desire with which he was looking at her now.
Besides, he was hard. She could feel him against her thigh.
“You’re so beautiful,” he breathed, running the tips of his fingers along the sides of her torso. “You’re so sexy. How did I get so lucky?”
