I looked at Serafina with wide eyes. 'What? Antea is pregnant? She is pregnant again? With who?'

I could feel sadness take over me but soon enough anger started to burn in me. 'She is pregnant again but with who? Whose child is she carrying?'

I snapped my head to the Marino as he cleared his throat "Sh-she is pregnant?" He asked no one in particular while looking around the table.

"Umm, I'm gonna go." Serafina said with an apologetic smile while turning around and walking towards her seat.

"Didn't.. umm, didn't she lose a baby?" Dante asked looking at me making me nod my head. "Yeah, she did." I said as I looked at Emiliano in my arms "Oh, for fuck sake." I groaned.

I felt a hand on my shoulder so I lifted my head locking my eyes with my mother's which were filled with tears. "Don't react before you know everything, let her explain and tell us more about herself." She said and I nodded mutely at her, understanding what she meant by that.

As on clue, Emiliano squealed "mama" making all of us snap our attention towards the restroom door. There side by side stood Antea and Daniel, turning in our direction they made their way towards us.

I couldn't keep my eyes from trailing over her figure. She looked beautiful like always but as she walked closer my eyes fell on her stomach. Now when I looked better at her I could actually see a small baby bump that looked barely noticeable under her dress. Just the thoughts of her bearing someone else's child made my heart hurt.

"Don't do or say something that you will regret later." That was the last thing mom said as she walked back to her seat.

"Hi." Antea said timidly with a small smile as she sat down on a seat that Daniel pulled out for her. We were all still at the loss of the words so we only nodded at her.

"Hi, sweetie. Are you feeling better?" Mother asked while looking at her concerned.

"Yeah," Antea started "I'm better. I'm sorry for dashing like that." She apologized looking at mom sadly. "It's okay sweetie." Mom said and after that, we fell into silence.

My mind was still in overdrive over the fact that she.. my Antea, mio amore is pregnant?

The silence around us started to get more uncomfortable by passing seconds and Daniel started to be aware of it so he turned to Antea. "Are you gonna tell them?" He asked silently making Antea's head snap at him.

"Umm, I don't know." She said silently while looking at him. Emiliano suddenly wiggled out of my arms and went towards Antea wrapping his little arms around her.

"Up." He squealed making her chuckle while lifting him into her lap. "Is that okay?" she asked and kissed him on a cheek making him burst into a fit of a giggle.

"Antea." My mother called her silently "What happened? Did you get sick or something?" She asked acting unaware and confused but Antea quickly shook her head. "No, miss..." she started but mother cut her off quickly. "Please call me Isabella."

Antea laughed lightly at her making a smile stretch across mother's face. "Okay, Isabella, I'm not sick, I'm actually.." she stopped herself and turned her head to Daniel who gave her a reassuring smile ".. I'm actually pregnant." She said making me take a deep breath.

My heart hammered in my chest as I looked at the girl next to me. She really was pregnant.

"You are pregnant?" Dante asked looking at her "Like pregnant-pregnant like you have a baby in your stomach?" He asked while looking at her shocked. "Yeah, just like that." She said with a small chuckle.

"Oh, well congratulations." Mother said with a small smile "How far along are you?" "13 weeks." Antea said with a smile while placing a hand over her stomach.

"Oh, well how did the father react?" Mother asked making a smile slip from Antea's face. I looked at her seeing how she stiffened at the question along with Daniel.



Daniel quickly took her hand that was on the table and gave her a squeeze of reassurance which made me frown.

I looked at her for a couple of moments seeing how her leg started to bounce up and down. She was anxious, but why?

'Did something happened to her child's father? Is he even in her life? Did he left her to take care of a baby by herself?'

I was brought back to reality when Antea cleared her throat "Umm, well I, umm.. he.. umm.." she stuttered but then stopped herself taking a deep breath she lowered her eyes downwards "... I don't know." She said just above the whisper.

"What do you mean sweetie?" "Well because of the accident I don't remember anything what happened before it, so.."

"Oh, so you got pregnant before the accident?" Mother asked again making Antea nod her head. "Yes." She said and I felt like someone punched all breath out of me.

13 weeks is three and a half months almost four. That was while she was still with us. Oh God, I'm the father. I'm gonna be a dad again. I'm gonna have a child with a woman that stole my heart.

I looked at her and couldn't help the smile that stretched across my face "Are you sure that that was before the accident?" I asked just to make sure that my math and thoughts are right.

"Yeah," she said silently "when I first found out that I was pregnant I asked the doctor could she see how far along I am. I was around ten weeks then so after I told her that I was an accident she proposed that we count weeks. And it ended up that I got pregnant around a week or a little less before the accident." She said with a sad smile.

I was right. I'm gonna be a dad. Again. My smile didn't drop and that brought a lot of frowns around the table. Dante, Marino, and Moreno looked at me like I was crazy while mother looked at me confused.

"Well, congratulations." I said with a smile making her lower her eyes from me to Emiliano in her lap.

"Thank you." She said silently but I didn't miss her cheeks which got pink color over them. 'I can still make her blush.' I thought while letting my lips fall into a smirk.

I wanted to tell her not to worry, tell her that she isn't alone in this, that she has me. But I couldn't, I didn't want to scare her. So I'm gonna try to take it slowly and let her get to know me, show her that I can win her back, and tell her about our past.

I turned my attention at Moreno who looked at me dumbstruck so I sent him a wink on which got him even more confused.

Well, that is on me. I didn't tell any of them about the night before Antea tried to kill herself. I mean it's not like they should know about my love life anyway...

"I will tell you later." I mouthed to him making him nod. Daniel cleared his throat making me snap my head at him "They are coming." He said nodding her head at Antea's parents' direction causing Antea to take a harsh breath.

"Can you please not mention pregnancy in front of them." She begged silently while looking at all of us with pleading eyes causing series of nods to erupt around the table

"Oh, God." She muttered under her breath while tightening her hold on Emiliano as her parents came closer and closer to our table.

I would like to pull her to me and wrap my arms around her while telling her that everything will be okay. And that I'm there, that I'm not gonna let them hurt her. But I couldn't, I don't want to scare her and make her run away.

So instead of that I lightly patted her hand that was around Emiliano's little body. She lifted her head to look at me making me send her a reassuring smile while mouthing 'don't worry'. She smiled back at me which caused my heart to skip a beat. 'God her smile is beautiful.'

"Well, here we are." Andrea said with a chuckle while sitting down at the chair next to Daniel.

"Welcome back." Mother said politely with a chuckle "Oh, here are my husband and daughter that you didn't meet." Mom said while standing up and kissing my father on the cheek. Eww.

"This is my husband Giovanni and my daughter Bellissa." She said pointing at each of them. They nodded their heads while greeting Andrea and Stefan.

"It's nice to meet you, Giovanni." Stefan said while shaking my father's hand "This is my nephew Daniel and my daughter Antea." He added.

Dad's head turned towards them and his eyes widened for a second before he remained his composure. "Antea cara, how are you?" He asked making Antea frown but smile nonetheless.

I facepalmed myself in my head. Shit, he wasn't here from the beginning. "Umm, I'm fine, sir. Do we know each other?" She asked making him switch his eyes on me. I mutely shook my head tell him not to say anything else.

He received a message as he returned his eyes to the confused girl "Of course. You are my son's friend, right?" He said while pointing at Dante. "Oh, yeah. I am." She said with a small laugh.

I turned my eyes at Bellissa who whole this time stood next to dad and looked between Antea and Daniel. She sent a smile to all of them and sat down on a chair next to mother.

The silence fell over is as we watched around at dancing people and had short conversations with each other.

The atmosphere was just like at every wedding cheerful and simply happy however I could stop myself from having harsh flashbacks of the past. Every time a flashback would come to my mind I would steal a secret glance at the beauty next to me feeling my heart flutter and break at the same time.

. . .

"So you have any plans?" Dante asked Daniel making him frown. Till now people started to slowly leave. It was late, even Emiliano fell asleep in Antea's arms while holding on to her dress tightly.

I didn't want him to be in her lap so he doesn't hurt her or the baby, but when I tried to take him he simply just tightened his hold on her while whining. So after a couple more tries, I give up when Antea said that it isn't a problem for him to be in her lap.

"What do you mean?" Daniel asked tilting his head ever so slightly. "Are you going home or?" "Oh, that." He said then nodded towards Antea "No, we decided to stay a little here."

"Oh really?" Marino chipped in "You staying in Italy?" "Yeah, that was a plan. We booked a hotel-" Daniel started but Dante cut him off.

"Oh, no you didn't. You are not staying in the hotel while you are here." He said while shaking his head.

"And where should we be?" Daniel asked lifting his eyebrow. "With us." Dante answered like it was logical. "No, it's not necessarily-"

"Yes, it is. I stayed with you while I was in Croatia, so you will come with us when we would be going home." Dante said in no joke voice but after seeing the unsure look on Daniel's face he turned to me "Xavier, tell them." He whines like a child.

Chuckling I turned to Daniel "It's not a problem for you to stay with us. You would spend time together even if you are a hotel, so instead of paying for a hotel room, you can stay with us. There are plenty of rooms." I said with a smile.

He looked at me than at Antea who shrugged her shoulders "I don't know. But Xavier has a point. You will be together nonstop." She said silently but loud enough for us to hear. Chills ran through my body at the was she said my name. The way that rolled of her tongue.

Sighing Daniel looked at her "Okay then. If that's okay with you guys then we will go with you." He said making Dante give them an ear-to-ear grin.

"Oh, this is gonna be fun." Dante said while winking at Antea and sending me a slay smirk causing sudden waves of desire to wrap my hands around his neck and choke him till the death shoot through me.