Page 26 of Mafia Don's Secret Twins

Caterina gives her a questioning look, and Gia sighs. “Marisol took one look at me and could tell I was pregnant when her dad kidnapped me.”

“That’s pretty good,” Caterina grins.

I shrug. “Well. I guess I was also pregnant with De Luca babies at some point. Maybe I just sensed it.”

Catarina laughs. “That makes three of us. Luna’s mine too,” she says by way of explanation.

“Someone needs to study how many twins we have in this family,” Gia says, her eyes rolling. “It seems like slightly more than normal.”

“Is anything normal about being with a De Luca or a Rossi?”

Caterina’s comment makes Gia smile. “Fair point.”

I nod. “Well. Sounds like we all need to stick together, then,” I smile.

Caterina reaches a hand out and takes mine. “I grew up with three brothers. I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to have another sister-in-law.”

“Oh, I can’t… um…” I pause.

Gia and Caterina look at me expectantly.

I sigh. “It’s more complicated than that.”

“How so?” Caterina tilts her head to the side.

Heat floods my cheeks. “Um… Well… Dino… Dino and I…”

“We know they’re your kids. The two of you. You don’t have to hide that,” Gia says softly.

I take a breath. Of course. “Well, I guess I should share the story.” Or at least some of it.

It’s a little embarrassing. That’s the only reason that I don’t like to share it.

“My dad… well. You should know that my dad has a lot of connections. And a lot of children. For some reason he’s very obsessed with me, and one of my half-brothers. But, back then, he was trying to get the favor of… someone he needed to have the favor of in order to do this like, business deal. He wanted to use me as part of that. I was supposed to go to Spring Break with this girl who had just gone through a breakup, as a favor to her father, and I was supposed to show her a good time.”

“Why you?”

I snorted. “I grew up in Florida with my mom. My dad would actually come visit and be kind of cool. Like, he would bring presents and stuff and he and my mom would kind of get along until she would kick him out again, or he woulddisappear. So I knew Florida, and he thought I could show this other girl around.”

“Why your mom?” Gia asks.

I shrug. “I don’t know. He’s killed most of his other lovers. I think he was a tiny bit afraid of my mom. She shot him with a shotgun, once.”

“Oh my god, I love her,” Caterina gushes.

The ghost of a smile crosses my lips. “Yeah. She’s pretty great. Anyway, this friend immediately ditched me so I just kind of hung out and I found Dino on the beach.”

“What do you mean, you found him?” Gia asks.

“Exactly what it sounds like. I literally found him. He was piss drunk and basically half alive.”

They exchange a look. “Sounds like a teenage Dino, to be honest,” Caterina sighs.

I blink at her. “What?”

“Dino… he’s always had kind of a chip on his shoulder. For a long time I thought it was like a second son thing, but lately…” her voice trails off.

It doesn’t look like she wants to say anything else, so I let it go.

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