‘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!’

already celebrated the birth of his baby

version 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

realised Alessandra hadn’t drunk any alcohol for well over a year, what with the pregnancy and then the four months of breast-feeding

tolerance would

and she’d insisted on wearing her five-inch

her like her own personal guard when Rocco called

need to drink to baby Mondelli,’

took a moment for the penny to drop.

the beam on his face.

manly fashion, the two men then downed their final shots, got to their feet, walked

* * *

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a SOCIETY

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

her closer to

be left to nothing but

feel in her skin was him. He walked beside her, so near yet so

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