Luca sat back, heart pumping with adrenalin, a huge ball of love and emotion making his chest full. He drank in his beloved wife, her beautiful face, and those eyes that never failed to suck him in and make him feel as if he were drowning.
‘I love you,’ he whispered huskily, the words flowing easily from his heart.
‘I love you too.’
Serena smiled, but it was wobbly. He could see the emotion in her eyes mirrored his own. He spread his hand over her distended belly, hard with their child who was now starting the journey to meet them.
His wife, his family...his life. He was enriched beyond anything he might have believed possible.
And eight hours later, when he held his newborn baby daughter in his arms, her tiny face scrunched up and more beautiful than anything he’d ever seen in his life—after his wife—Luca knew that trusting in love was the most amazing revelation of all.
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