‘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!’

the birth of his baby with Rocco, Zayed and Stefan

the baby’s head in the bar next door with her sister-in-law and some other friends.

over a year, what with the

would be

and she’d insisted on wearing her

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

baby Mondelli,’ Rocco said with a knowing

moment for the penny to drop. ‘Olivia,

his face.

to their feet, walked out of

* *

out for the next instalment of SOCIETY WEDDINGS: THE SICILIAN’S

on for a SOCIETY

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

took her closer to her

she would be left

skin was him. He walked beside her,

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