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Xavier's hold on my hand tightened as the jet started to land. I closed my eyes tightly while burying my head in his chest searching for some safety.

After our little talk and me promising him that I will give him a chance to show me the real him. A chance to get to know him better and for him to make me fall for him again. Not just for me but this baby under my heart also.

He decided to help me pack some of my stuff because apparently, I have some stuff left there already from last time. And then we made our way towards the airport where a jet was waiting for us already ready to take us to our destination.

At first, I was scared shitless but Daniel and Xavier made me feel safe during the whole fight. They would keep distracting me from my overthinking every time I would zone out.

The same thing was now, Xavier is whispering calming and soothing words in my ear while having a hold on me.

My heart would make weird jumps and shivers would run over my spine every time his hot breath would hit the skin on my neck near my ear.

"We are almost there. It will soon be over." He whispered placing a kiss on my temple. His lips lingered longer than needed on my skin making blush appear on my cheeks and the tip of my ears.

The plane started to shake a little when it touched the ground causing me to grip Xavier's shirt in tight fists.

"Shh, just a second, and we will stop." He softly said while rubbing my back with his other hand.

I didn't even realize that I was holding my breath until my lungs didn't start to arch causing me to take a deep breath.

The jet stopped moving and Xavier pulled away from me slightly. "We are here." He exclaimed making my eyes widen and I pulled my head from his chest looking through the window.

I couldn't see much because it was the middle of the night. However, I saw cars in the distance coming towards us.

"Those are our cars coming to pick us up." Xavier whispered near my ear making me jump a little from surprise. I didn't even realize how long I was just looking outside that when I turned to face Xavier he was already holding Emiliano in his arms and guys were getting up from their seats.

"Sorry, I didn't even realize I zoned out." I said shyly while fasting my seatbelt.

"Don't worry about that. You are tired it was.. all of this is tiring to you, both of you." He exclaimed with a small smile while his eyes hold something that I couldn't explain differently but love.

"Let's go." Saying that he extended his hand for me to take. Placing my hand in his he helped me stand up from my seat and not letting go of my hand started to lead the way out.

"Metti le borse nel bagagliaio." Matteo said to some men standing next to the car on which they started to do so. ("Put the bags in the trunk.")

"Why do they need to do something that you can do yourself?" I asked looking at him with a slight pull in my brows on which he only sends me a wink.

"Because that is their job. They got paid for putting stuff there, tesoro."

"Okay. Do I need to take my stuff?" I said even though I would more than probably take my stuff by myself, as a result of my question he shook his head while Xavier brought me closer to him.

"No, amore. They will put the stuff in the cars and then we will go home. You don't need to do anything, just rest, that's what you need right now." With that, he pulled me towards one of the cars and opened doors for me to get in.

"Here. Get in this one, if you want Maya can go with us while Daniel goes with guys?" He questioned making me nod. "Sure."

"Mama, up, mama." Emiliano tried to wiggle out from Xavier's hold causing Xavier to chuckle and put him in the seat next to me. However little guy didn't like that position because he crawled over the seats to come and curled into my side leaning his head on me.

"I'm gonna go and get her." Xavier said but his eyes lingered longer on two of us while his lips tilted up. Closing the doors he went away.

I softly hummed and ran a hand through Emiliano's dark hair seeing his eyes dropping more and more with every passing second.

Not long after Xavier and Maya joined us in the car and we started our way towards Xavier's house. The drive was pretty quiet mostly because Emiliano was already fallen asleep in Xavier's lap and besides rest of us were way too tired from this whole trip to talk.

Somewhere during the ride, my eyes started to sting from lack of sleep so I closed them only for a moment while leaning my head on Xavier's shoulder. His body emitted warmth which my body craved so I let myself snuggle into his side.

"Dormire, vita mia." I heard Xavier whispered against my hair while leaving a tender kiss. His words made my heart skip the beat and weird tingles shot through my body. Unconsciously and unknowingly to me, my body obeyed his command, and not long after sleep took a toll on me dragging me in the deepness of it. ("Sleep, my life.")

. . .

My sleep was broken by shuffling around me. Not wanting to open my eyes and let sleep slip through my fingers I kept them closed.

I could hear footsteps around me and the light that was shining over my face suddenly disappeared. However, blabbering and small feet hitting the ground appeared from nowhere.

"Shh, principino, mamma sta dormendo, dobbiamo stare zitti." A husky voice said near me causing little feet to stop running around. ("Shh, little prince, mommy is sleeping, we need to be quiet.")

Slowly pulling my eyes open I was met with the sight of Xavier with Emiliano in his arms not far from me. Slowly I blinked my eyes a couple of times and let my eyes fell over the room in which we were.

It was a big spacious bedroom with dark gray and caramel colors around it. Looking around I had a strange feeling of deja vu just like back at the house in Italy.

I shifted a little around the bed sitting up to get a better look at the room but my shifting got Xavier's attention making his head snap in my direction.

"Buongiorno, amore." He said getting closer to bed and letting Emiliano down. The little boy quickly, just like always, crawled into my lap leaning his head on my chest and started play with my hair. Something that I would catch him do all the time.

"Morning.." I whispered back still in a daze from sleep and confusion about the place we were in. "Where are we? Is it a day already? How did I get here?"

"Hey, hey, calm down. We got home last night, don't you remember?" On his question, my mind just did 360 flips and I remembered us coming here and getting into the car.

"I remember us getting into the car?" I said but it sounded more like a question.

"Yeah, you fell asleep during the ride." He said and brought his hand to slowly rub my back making me relax from his touch. "Oh.. and where are we?"

"We are in our old bedroom." His words made my eyes widen slightly and rosy blush rose on my cheeks. But before I could say anything he continued. "I would put you in your old bedroom but.. I didn't know that Bellissa arrived here yesterday, she shouldn't arrive till next week. But however she came and took one of the spare rooms, so I needed to put Daniel and Maya in your old room."

"Oh, o-okay. Umm, but how did I get here?" "I carried you here." He answered not missing a beat making my already rosy cheek get even redder.

"I-I'm so sorry. Why didn't you woke me up? I must be heavy. You should wake me-" I started but he cut me off quickly by wrapping his arm around me pulling me closer to him.

"Shh, I didn't want to wake you up because you were tired. And besides, I know if I woke you up you wouldn't fell back asleep for a long time. Don't cry." Until he didn't whisper that, I didn't realize that I started to cry.

His hand softly swiped over my cheek taking tears away. "And for your information, you are not heavy or fat. Okay? I don't want to hear you say that ever again about yourself. You are beautiful and you are carrying the baby."

"Okay." I said barely audible while letting my head fell on his chest listening to his heartbeat. Even if I said okay I still wasn't sure about his words. I know I got fatter in the past weeks and I could see signs of that. My hips got wider, my breasts bigger and besides my tights are huge along with my stomach.

"Did we, umm.. did you sleep-" probably seeing my trouble he chuckled shaking his head.

"I slept on the couch. I know you don't remember me, so I didn't want to make you feel uncomfortable with something like that." He said making me send him a thankful smile.

"Thank you." I whispered shyly making a smile spread across his lips.

"You don't need to thank me, amore. If you are not gonna go back to sleep we could go down to get breakfast? Or do you want to lay here some more?"

"I'm fine with getting up." I exclaimed with a smile and Xavier pulled away from me pulling whining Emiliano with him.

"Okay, I'm gonna go change Emiliano. These are the doors that lead to the bathroom" he said pointing towards a door on the right side of the room "..if you want to freshen up and there is a closet." He added pointing towards other doors "..I put your suitcase there and you have your old clothes there also."

"Okay. Thank you." I exclaimed as he exited through other doors but not before he sent me a smile.