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‘I’m so happy,’ she whispered ‘Because…’

‘Because…?’ Oh, yes, she wanted to have a talk But Alessandro knew himself to be unassailable ‘You told me on the phone that you wanted to talk to me…?’

‘I do…and brace yourself for a bit of a shock…You’re going to be a father…’

‘I still think that you tricked ht from New York because you wanted to talk,’ Alessandro told her severalnext to hihter between the you, and here I a, but I have thisbetween us’

Isabella, whose naer and instantly drew it to her mouth

‘If only I was that clever I would have pulled that trick a lot earlier’ Megan smiled

It was nearly a year now, and each day was better than the one before They still lived in the house they had bought in leafy London, and she had continued working right up to the last possible h he had fussed and fretted like a mother hen, and would have wrapped her in cotton wool for the duration of her pregnancy if he could have She had stood her ground—soe that it was just one of the things he loved about her Even more of a revelation had been his adumentative and stubborn, and he had also told her that if she wasn’t possessive with hiht just be inclined to feel unloved

So now Megan was the person she was, never hiding anything of herself or editing her personality in any way

She had even begun buying hi—and he, a further miracle, had actually worn a few

‘You could, of course, do it again’ He reached across to stroke her face, his dark eyes tender ‘I think it’s time I came home and you surprised me with the news that there’s another little Bella on the way…’

‘Because you’re still ai for that football team…?’

He grinned at her, and they laughed, and Bella’s eyes flew open so that she could deliver a glaring repri her up

A private joke They shared lots of those now, but this one was the dearest held For Robbie and Victoria had been married around the same time as they had, and they had been the ones to move out to the country, where Victoria had taken up afor a sht now she was pregnant, with a brother or sister for Doh to bet that he would be coaching his own personal football teaan and Victoria had found very a birth to those aies-to-be

‘I would never dare to suggest such a thing, …’ He leant across to kiss her on the lips—a feathery kiss that made her tummy flutter

‘But you’re crazy enough to’

Yes, he thought This was his life and he loved it Crazy, in the end, made sense

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