Page 51 of Unwanted Marriage with the Mafia Boss

“How is he? How is Adriano?” I push myself up on my elbows.

“He just got out of surgery. He’s stable at the moment.”

Relief rushes through me. “Can I see him?”

“No, not yet, but we can talk about you in the meantime. My name is Laura,” she says. “They referred you to me because I’m a gynecologist.”

I furrow my brow. “Is something wrong with me?”

“So you don’t know you’re pregnant?”

“What?” My jaw goes slack. “That can’t be right.”

All the nausea, and feeling weird, and fainting... It makes sense, but it can’t be. Adriano and I used protection. Except, nothing is infallible. The odds are tiny, but it’s not impossible.

“I’d like to do an ultrasound to make sure everything’s okay,” Laura says.

“I...” I don’t know what to say or what to think.

“If you’re worried thatsomeone elsewill find out about this, you don’t have to. I’ll delete all the records and make sure word doesn’t get out.” Her brown eyes are trained on me.

Someone else? She means Adriano, doesn’t she?

I give her a nod. “Okay.”

“Good. Now lie back down and I’ll set everything up.” She smiles.

I’m pregnant. The words still sound surreal to me. I’ve daydreamed about it, but I’ve never thought it would be anything like this.

And the baby’s father... Adriano is not my loving husband. He’s everything I hoped the father of my children wouldn’t be. He’s a mafia boss with a complicated past, present, and future, and I don’t think he even wants to be a father.

I could disappear. He let me go. I could find my parents, and we could all go somewhere far away from here. If we left our home to Adriano, he wouldn’t need to look for us. I could raise my child on my own.

“Let’s take a look.” Laura holds the ultrasound probe.

A few moments later, I frown at the screen behind her.

“Oh,” Laura says as she moves the probe around.

“What’s going on?”

“There’s two of them. Look.” She points at the screen, but I don’t even understand what I’m looking at. “You’re having twins.”

Twins? I don’t know how many more shocks I can take today, but this is a positive one. A smile erupts on my face, and the corners of my eyes fill with tears of joy. My babies! I’m looking at my babies. They’re real. This is really happening.

I can’t stop grinning. Right now, I want to have my happy moment. A moment where I can just enjoy the fact that I’m going to be a mom to twins. I’ll think about everything else later, when I’m calmer and once I’ve had the chance to think things through.

“Do you have a phone I can use?” I need to make sure my mom and dad are really free, and I want to let them know I’m okay too.

“Sure,” Laura says.

My pregnancy will be my secret.

For now.

CHAPTER 29

Adriano

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