‘There is one little problem.’

‘Oh?’

He reached into his back pocket and pulled out an envelope.

Inside was a document making official Christian’s name from Markos to Mondelli.

Thus, when their swaddled baby was handed to them properly to begin their journey as a family, the first thing their daughter heard was the sound of her parents’ laughter.

As beginnings went, it couldn’t be bettered.

* * *

‘Three, two, one, drink!’

In unison, Christian and Rocco raised their glasses to their mouths and downed their shots.

‘To Letizia Markos,’ said Rocco, picking up his next shot.

‘To my beautiful baby,’ Christian agreed. ‘And to my beautiful wife.’

‘Three, two, one, drink!’

his baby with Rocco, Zayed and

of wetting the baby’s head in the bar next door with her sister-in-law and some other friends. He suspected theirs would be a much more civilised affair than his had been. But

over a year, what with the pregnancy and then the four months of

would be

she’d insisted on

the bar and hover over her like her own personal guard when Rocco called the barman over for

drink to baby Mondelli,’

for the penny to drop. ‘Olivia,

hide the beam on his face. ‘Yes.

downed their final shots, got to their feet, walked out of the bar and into the next one, both eager to be with the women they loved above

*

SOCIETY WEDDINGS: THE SICILIAN’S SURPRISE WIFE by Tara

on for a

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THE streets were packed, the evening balmy. As they passed loud party-goers, all Alessandra

her closer to

be left to nothing

was him. He walked beside her, so

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