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Bella just shook her head, in awe of this ot here in time? What if my plane had already taken off?’

‘I would have caught the next flight to New York,’ he replied withouta beat

‘Really?’

‘You’d better believe it I wasn’t about to let you get away, ’

Bella had never felt so loved as she did at that moment

When they eed from the terio’s silver Alfa Rouard holding the passenger door open for her

‘Now there is one thing I io said once they were safely out of the airport and on their way, not back to Lake Co for the Morelli factory ‘Is there really a movie deal, or did you just make that up?’

‘No, it’s real all right But they don’t need ust,’ she confessed

‘I see,’ he said thoughtfully

‘If you don’t want ive up my career entirely if that’s what you want’

His shock was genuine ‘I would never ask that of you, Bella That wouldn’t be right And it wouldn’t work in the long run You were born to perform’

Bella bit her bottom lip as a neave of emotion threatened to overwhelm her How lucky was she that she had finally found that dreained did not exist

‘I don’t have to work all the tiio,’ she reassured him ‘I ant to take lots of time off to be here in Italy with you, especially when the children co’

‘You do want children, then?’ he asked, sounding a little surprised

‘I would love to have children Especially your children’

‘You’ve no idea how glad I aht have been getting a little carried away Oh, dear God’

‘What?’

‘I need to ring Maria and Jere’s sorted out between us When I found out what had happened, I just bolted out of the place without explaining anything Here! TakeJeremy His number’s in the menu’

Sergio couldn’t help s to Jere on the news that they were going to get married