Page 28 of The Sexy Billionaire

“No. I need to make it all better. You used to love it when you were little,” she explains.

“I’m an adult,” I say, which falls on deaf ears. “Hey, Papà, how are you feeling?” I ask, seeing him sit down.

“Don’t worry about this old man. How are you, my son?”

“I’ve been better,” I tell him honestly.

“I can’t believe Giada did this to you. I called her, but she refused to answer my calls,” Mamma states.

Natalia chuckles from the corner. How the hell does she look normal when I feel like shit?

“And where is your sister? Why is she not here?” Mamma asks.

Yeah, I’m not touching that subject at all. “Your heart okay?” I ask my father.

He waves my concern away. “The doctor said all good.”

That’s something, I guess.

“What do you need from me?” he asks.

“Nothing.”

“Oh,” Natalia exclaims from the corner as she stares at her phone.

My heart sinks. This is it. The moment the world finds out that we’ve broken up and the mayhem starts.

“Oh, what?” Mamma asks her.

Her eyes widen as she stares down at her phone, then back to me, then to Mamma and back again. “Fendi is having a sale.”

My mother rolls her eyes at my sister’s lie, guessing it’s not something she wants to say in front of her.

“Sorry, we’re late. Lilly wasn’t feeling well.”

As soon as the words are out of my brother’s mouth, he clocks our parents sitting in the room, and I can see he is internally cursing himself for letting the news slip like that.

“Are you pregnant?” Mamma asks, rushing over to where they are standing.

“Yes, we just—” Luca starts to explain but doesn’t get far, as she starts screaming and rejoicing as she gives Lilly a huge hug, then smothers Luca in kisses like she had just done for me.

“A baby. My baby is having a baby. This is the best news I’ve heard. We needed some good news,” she says, looking over at me.

Like I had any control of what’s happened to me.

“Thanks, Mamma, we are so very excited,” Luca says.

“Congratulations, my son,” Papà says as he gets up from his chair to give his well-wishes to the happy couple.

“Sorry,” Luca says.

I shake my head. “They needed some good news, especially Papà. He doesn’t need the stress of my doomed relationship on his mind.”

“Might keep Mamma out of your hair, too.” He chuckles.

Isn’t that the truth.

“Allegra and Giada are in fucking Mykonos,” Natalia whispers as she joins us.

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