‘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!’

birth of his baby with Rocco, Zayed and Stefan four

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

drunk any alcohol for well over a year,

would be

and she’d insisted on wearing her

set to bolt out of the bar and hover over her like her own personal guard when Rocco called the barman over

baby Mondelli,’ Rocco

moment for the penny

face. ‘Yes. I’m going

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

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evening balmy. As they passed loud party-goers, all

her closer to her

be left

could feel in her skin was him. He walked

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