She gives my hand a gentle squeeze and her smile widens. It doesn’t reach her eyes though like it usually does so I know she’s hurting. I know she’s deeply sad that Dominic is gone.
I brush her hair and spend another hour with her then I head home to Isabella.
I find her in the living room going through her stuff. We arranged for her things to be transported here from yesterday. Looks like everything is here.
She didn’t take much. It was a few boxes of her books, films and her clothes.
“Hey, you were supposed to wait for me to do that,” I tease.
“I thought I’d get a head start.”
“I don’t want you lifting anything,” I walk over to her, passing the boxes and give her one kiss on the lips for her and a kiss on her tiny stomach for the baby.
She laughs when I do that.
“You are so cute, I don’t have a bump yet.”
“Cute, Bellezza don’t let anybody hear you say that,” I chuckle. “I’ll be kissing my girl and kid every chance I get so you better get used to it.”
“I love you,” she says, words I want to hear over and over again.
It will mean even more with the plans I have up my sleeve. I can’t do anything about things I can’t control. I too hope that wherever Dominic is, he’s safe and he’ll be back soon.
Until then my focus is on making this woman mine.
“I love you too.”