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‘Vito…’

Raking damp, tousled black hair off his brow, Vito turned his head and flashed her a heart-stopping grin ‘Angelo emptied his cereal bowl over his head at breakfast and I decided I should stay home’

Holly moved forward ‘I can see that…’

‘I’m very set inas Angelo smacked the water with a tiny fist and splashed both of them

‘He’ll grow up so fast your head will spin You won’t ever get this tihed ‘I didn’t want you to ret it’

‘You spoke up and that was the right thing to do I respect your honesty Parenting is a whole new ball gaetdown a towel and spreading it on the floor before lifting Angelo’s squir him down

‘How to get yourself soaked!’ Holly groaned

‘I’m already drenched to the skin,’ Vito riposted with quiet pride ‘Angelo and I have had a lot of fun’

The nursery was e the necessities ‘What have you done with the nanny posse?’ she asked curiously

‘I told the so new to this I didn’t want an audience’

Holly dried Angelo and deftly dressed hi a bronzed sliver of ether they walked downstairs

‘Do you have any photographs of when you were pregnant?’ Vito asked, startling her into turning wide blue eyes onto his lean, dark face

‘I don’t think so… I wasn’t feeling very photogenic at the time Why?’

‘I’et back,’ Vito conceded gravely ‘I really would have liked to have seen you when you were carrying our child’

Regret assailed her, for she would have loved to have had his support during those dark days of worry and exhaustion She had struggled to stay e as possible so as not to be a burden on Pixie