Chapter 724

Nick’s POV The four of us got into the car almost at the same time.

Bella dove into the back seat, sliding across it like it was the couch at home.Her small backpack in her lap.

Hair still rumpled from the morning.The unfiltered excitement of someone who doesn’t store anxiety in her body.

“Seatbelt,” Martina warned automatically, before she had even sat down.

“I know, Grandma,” Bella replied, clicking it in with a dramatic sigh, just to perform that she was being forced.

Gwen closed the passenger door carefully and settled in slowly, her hand going to her belly in an instinctive gesture.

I got into the driver’s seat, put the key in, and for a second just stared ahead, feeling the good weight of having everyone there. I started the engine.

It turned over and something inside me did too.

Gwen glanced at the back seat.

Bella had already stretched her legs out and was swinging her feet in the air.

Then she looked at me with a smile that was too innocent for the woman she was.

“We’re going to need a bigger car soon,” she commented casually, like she was talking about replacing a couch.

I didn’t take my eyes off the rearview mirror.

“What? Mine can handle it.” Martina turned toward me with the look of someone who had just heard a crime against humanity.

“Stop being cheap, Nick,” she shot back.

Kensington soon.Investing in your family’s

pointed at the

gang up on me now?” Bella raised her hand from the back seat like she

side.” Gwen paused theatrically, like she

“Oh,” she said.

three of them started laughing like they had rehearsed

head, defeated, pulling the car

doomed,” I

“Surrounded by temperamental women.”

a

is,”

left Florentia with the car full of voices.The road to Montelira had

was a path I knew with

that morning, I wasn’t alone with the landscape. I was bringing my family

pulled into Montelira, I felt a pressure in

dirt road like it had

The construction was

No more debris.

No hammering.

No improvisation.

The walls were clean.

The windows installed.

The courtyard organized.

looked ready

Dante was there.

Leaning against a car with the smile of someone who has fun even while

one of the employees, clipboard in hand,

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