Hailey's POV

As clock work I wake up with the same nauseating feeling at the crack of dawn, only there's no sun rays peeking in through Isaac's bedroom curtains today, however the soft glow from the nightlight in the bathroom is coming in.

I turn to lay on my back looking over at the digital clock that's on the far wall near the tv to see that it's actually four in the morning. Guess the baby had the need to wake me up about two hours earlier today.

I glance beside me to find my shirtless husband deeply asleep, laying on his stomach as he snores softly. Turning back on my side I lean in closer to him and place a quick kiss on his shoulder blade and begin to climb out of bed.

Some of Carmelo's guys are supposed to come over later on throughout the day to move Isaac's bedroom around because right now his bed is still towards the wall so the second I need to get up to pee I have to climb over him. And being the man that Isaac is, he no longer wants me doing that so he chose to sleep towards the wall last night, this way if I have to use the bathroom I could get out easily.

The second I get out of bed Isaac immediately begins to stir in his sleep and I'm instantly holding my breath, praying to baby Jesus that he doesn't wake up and he does.

"Hey," he croaks. "You okay?"

I smile and lean back on the bed, "how do you do that?"

"Do what?" He frowns, sleep still hazed in his eyes.

I climb on the bed, "know the second I leave your side," I smile and lean in to kiss him.

He kisses me back, "you're my comfort zone baby, I know the second my woman leaves my side."

I smile and kiss him again, "go back to sleep."

He shakes his head, "I'll wait for you to come back out."

I nod my head, "I'll be fast."

He nods and lays back down and I'm climbing off of the bed and heading towards the bathroom. I shut the door behind me before turning the light on and switching the nightlight off. Peeing in the middle of the night has become a constant habit that Isaac's afraid I'll trip over something so he got a nightlight.

I didn't mind it, I thought it was extremely thoughtful, but I know he hates it and might even regret it. Isaac loves being in pitch dark, he loves the darkness, and sleeping in pitch black, he even turns our phones over on the night stands so if anything does break through his 'do not disturb' setting the light won't bother him.

He had a horrible couple of nights when he first bought it and tossed and turned so I decided to move it into the bathroom, leaving the door slightly cracked so most of the glow stays inside. I used the bathroom really quickly, washed my hands, and headed back out into the bedroom leaving the nightlight off.

I immediately begin to smile when I find Isaac laying on his side soundly asleep again.

Things last night definitely didn't go as planned with Carmelo, we hadn't imagined that he would genuinely be upset about me being pregnant, I honestly thought he was going to be happy but even after he congratulated us you could hear him and Adriana arguing in their bedroom when we all went to bed.

I glance over at Isaac praying to baby Jesus that it goes completely opposite with my dad because we need some type of happiness in our life right now.

Isaac hasn't mentioned anything yet but I know that it's killing him that he didn't get the reaction he wanted from his dad, so now he's even more nervous of telling my father.

I begin to head towards the night stand and slowly open the drawer as quiet as I can and pull one of the baby ultrasounds out.

I glance over at my husband one last time to see that he's still soundly asleep and begin to take a couple steps back, I know that if I try and give him a kiss he's going to wake up almost instantly and I won't be able to do what I want too.

I have about an hour, hour and a half tops before Carmelo's up and doing his morning workout. I want to try and sneak into his office and place the ultrasound image on his desk before he begins his day to try and ease him into his grandfather mode rather than his over barring mafia boss mode.

I want the soft gentle side of Carmelo to come out so that his son can follow in his footsteps without him having to feel guilty that his dad is going to think he's going soft.

Moving as quietly as I can I begin to head towards the bedroom door turning the doorknob as slowly as I can so it doesn't make any type of sound and sneak my way out into the hallway.

The pitch black hallway immediately lights up once I'm out of the bedroom because of the motion sensored lights and I'm quickly running over to the switch and turning them off so the light doesn't peek in through Isaac parents bedroom.

I make my way down the stairs, careful to take my time. There's a faint glow coming in from the living room and kitchen due to the lights that always stay on incase Beven's has to stay up late this way it's not entirely pitch black down here.

I glance up at the ceiling when my eyes catch a little red light flashing in the corner, indicating that Carmelo's men are getting a live feed on their screen in the surveillance room and wave up at the camera and smile. I pray to baby Jesus that they don't make the stupid decision to wake up their boss or Isaac and tell them that I'm wandering the halls at a crazy hour.

I notice that the door to Carmelo's office is ajar once I get closer and see a faint light coming out through the cracks and immediately begin to frown to myself.

Is he in there? He can't be, it's way too early for him to be up or even late if he hasn't gone to bed yet, but Adriana and Carmelo went to their bedroom first before we did.

I place the ultrasound picture behind my back when my ears pick up on a soft sound coming from inside and place my other hand on the door, slowly pushing it open.

"Oh- I'm sorry," I immediately come to a pause when I in fact see a shirtless Carmelo standing at his desk, a money counter on top of it as he places bills on top of it.

He's wearing a pair of dark navy silky pajama pants that Isaac and I got him for his birthday.

It was actually one of the many designer pajama sets that we got him.

For a man who did very little sleep he sure loved his designer pajama sets, he owned just about the same amount of Pj's than he did suits.

"I didn't think you'd be in here so early," I say quietly while standing at the door.

Why the hell is he awake?

He smiles, shaking his head he waves me in, "just counting my daily greens, getting a therapeutic start. Come in, what's got you up so early?" He glances at the clock on his far wall.

"I came down for some water, I was feeling a little nauseous," I say.

He frowns and is taking the money out of his machine, placing a new stack in it, "KP doesn't have the mini fridge stocked?"

Damnit, okay, bad lie, bad excuse.

I nod and smile, "he does, but I wanted to get some fresh air."

He looks up from his machine again, "in my office?" His frown deepens.

"You know- you make it impossible to try and surprise you," I smile in defeat and walk deeper into the office.

"Surprise me?" He smiles back. "What more could you possibly surprise me with, Hailey."

My smile turns into a wide grin as I close in on the space between us and hand over the ultrasound picture, "your grand baby."

He takes it in his hand, his facial features instantly softening up, "so this is the little bean huh?" He holds it up in front of him and my chest immediately begins to swell at the reference.

He doesn't know it but his son too refers to our baby as bean, or even peanut.

"I wanted to surprise you and leave it on your desk before you left for work this morning, to help ease the tension between you and Isaac..."

He laughs softly through his nose, "c'mere," he says and is pulling me in for a hug.

I wrap my arms around him almost instantly, embracing him in return.

"As disappointed as you think I am, I'm not," he says quietly. "I'll admit I should've had a better reaction rather than blowing up, but I wanted you and Isaac to experience a life that Adriana and I couldn't."

I begin to pull away from him, "what do you mean?" I frown.

"Adriana and I weren't too much older than you and Isaac when she found out she was pregnant, a couple years max at least.. We didn't get to have the wedding of her dreams because I didn't propose to her until after I found out she was pregnant. I didn't get to take her away on a luxurious honeymoon because next thing you knew our son was already here. She didn't get to enjoy her 20s like one should because she was too busy being an overprotective mother, even from her own husband because she initially didn't want this life for Isaac."

"She's told me the story," I smile sympathetically.

"Then you can kind of understand why it honestly took me by surprise. I wanted you to experience the world, life, like you never had before, Hailey. I wanted you guys to put everything behind you and just live life to the fullest and enjoy each other's company. As much as Adri hates that I'm not stepping down yet she's happy where we're at, we both agreed to let you guys live rather than ruin Isaac even more by adding on more pressure. I wanted you to be a hundred percent comfortable in our lifestyle, our ways, your new life before Isaac took over. I had so many things planned out for you guys."

"And you wanted to enjoy retirement, enjoy your marriage, your wife," I smile a bit sadly, a little guilty of robbing that opportunity from him. Isaac told me his dad wasn't stepping down yet before he found out I was pregnant, but I still felt somewhat guilty about it.

"I wouldn't know what to do with all that free time even if I had it," he smiles. "I enjoy my marriage, my wife, my family, to the fullest every waking moment of my life, Hail. I am not a likable man, I'm well hated around these parks, my luck is bound to run out eventually so I make sure that my wife knows I love her every single day. I try to make sure that my son is okay, that he's able to handle everything I leave behind with him should my time come to an end because believe me- I've cheated death plenty of times. Adriana's been in your shoes, she's been in car wrecks, I've been stabbed, I've been shot at, I've been through everything my son has gone through but at an older age and it kills me that I can't protect him, that I can't protect you, my family every waking moment of my life because your guys safety is everything to me."

"It's not your job to protect all of us at every waking moment, Carmelo, you deserve to live your life just as much as the rest of us," I smile. "You're a workaholic believe it or not."

He cackles at this, "you don't say?"

I nod, "how else are you going to get to know your grandbaby if you're constantly taking business trips, constantly stuck in meetings, glued to your phone, to your laptop. You missed out on so much of your son's life, please don't make that same mistake twice, let him help you, let Isaac take some weight off of your shoulders, let your family in rather than pushing us away. Your son isolates himself and bottles everything up because he learned if for you, from his dad, you're creating an exact replica of yourself in him and I'll be damned if you guys continue that same cycle with my baby."

His lips begin to tug to the side, "how far along are you?"

"Seventeen weeks tomorrow."

His smile continues to grow slowly, "you're only four months and already becoming a momma bear."

"It's scary," I admit and instantly feel my throat get dry.

"I know, you're still a baby yourself.."

I feel my eyes immediately begin to water up and nod my head as I look up at him.

"Come here," he reaches for me like he did earlier and is pulling me in for another hug. I wrap my arms tight around him and feel the tears immediately begin to roll down my cheeks. "You're not alone baby girl, you don't have to be scared, we got you. Does your dad know yet?"

I shake my head, "n-no, we wanted to tell you first."

He snorts softly, "Guess that makes me the hot tempered grandpa huh? When are you telling him?"

"Tomorrow morning, or- later on today I should say.. Apparently he has some news for me too."

"Uhoh might have some competition with Anna," he grins as we pull apart from each other.

I laugh softly as I wipe the tears from my face, "gross, my dads too old to be raising his own babies at his age."

"I don't know, Baby Matteo might have an aunt or uncle younger than him," he continues to tease.

"So you are happy then?"

He smiles and nods, "more than happy angel, it's time that some good starts happening to this family. Can I keep this?" He grabs the ultrasound from his desk.

"Of course."

He smiles, "It's early as fuck still, we don't we both got back upstairs and tried to get a couple more hours of sleep?"

I nod, "were you up early or up late?"

"Little bit of both," he says. "I slept maybe about two hours before I was up again."

"Does it help?"

"Hm?"

I glance over at the money and machine on his desk, "does it help release stress?"

"The sound is like white noise to my ears," he smirks.

*** Alright babies I'm sorry that this is a short chapter. She's a shorty but a goodie! I'll be back at the end of next weekend with the second half of the chapter that will definitely have David's reactions to the pregnancy! Time got away from me & rather than making you guys wait even longer for me to finish ima let ya have this little bebe ❤️

I love you guys! I hope you enjoy it ❤️