‘Always ” He dropped his bag and pulled her into his arms kissing her and dinner was forgotten.
They were snuggling in bed much later limbs entwined when she told him.
‘Salvatore ”
‘Si” He was lazily rubbing her hip, his voice that deep, satisfied tone she’d come to associate with after making love.
‘We’ve never discussed children.”
His body tensed. ‘No, codolcezza, we have not.”
She tipped her head back to look into his eyes.
‘you like them, don’t you?” His expression was unfathomable.
‘AII Sicilian men like children.”
She smiled.
‘That’s nice.”
‘ls that aII?”
His hand stopped caressing her hip and his fingers pressed against her tightly, but he said nothing.
A little of the nerves she’d felt before his arrival came back to make her stomach flutter.
She settled her hand over it in an instinctive gesture.
‘l’m pregnant.”
Nothing. No words. His expression did not change. His breathing changed though.
‘salvatore?”
‘When did you find out?” His voice sounded harsh, as she’d never heard it before.
‘This week ” A little of the tension in him drained away.
‘And you told me immediately.”
‘yes. Of course. I wouldn’t want to hide it from you.”
‘That is admirable.” He didn’t sound admiring, however.
‘I know it’s hard to come to grips with. I was pretty shocked myself.”
His mouth twisted in a grimace.
‘I imagine you were.”
‘I mean I didn’t know you could get pregnant with just one lapse…the first time. It wasn’t even a good time in my cycle. It’s almost a miracle when you think about it.”
‘A miracle?” He sounded as if he was choking. Now are pregnant with another man’s child and you call this a miracle?”
She sat up, shock reverberating through her. ‘What are you talking about? What other man?”
‘Presumably whatever poor bastard was sharing your bed before you came to Milan.”