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“I’m so glad you and Matteo are here.”

“We are, too.”

“I wanted to ask you if you would come into the delivery room with me when I deliver this baby?”

“Kara.” Her eyes watered. “Are you sure Damon doesn’t want to be in there with you?”

“He doesn’t. He said he would be happy to wait outside the room.”

“Then I would be delighted to help you through that.”

I reached over and hugged her again.

The decorations were put up and pizza was being delivered upon Rose’s request for dinner.

“Aunt Olivia!” She reached up to hug her once she woke up.

Since Olivia and Matteo were practically family, we had Rose just call them her aunt and uncle.

“Pizza!” Damon called, carrying the pizzas into the dining room.

“Damon and I wanted to ask you both if you would be Rose’s godparents and the godparents of our newborn child. I know it’s not normally custom to ask for you to be for all our kids, but we couldn’t see anyone else taking care of them if something did happen to us.”

Matteo reached for Olivia’s hand and they smiled wide. “We would love to.”

“Thank you, guys.”

“Thank you. Now, who is ready for some cake?”

Rose was the first one to raise her hand in excitement.

Standing, I held the cake while we sang Happy Birthday to her. “Make a wish,” I told her before she blew out the candles.

Chapter Seventeen

KARA

Time passed so fast as our wedding day approached. Nerves swirled in my belly and I prayed the dress still fit since I was about to give birth any moment.

“You are gonna look gorgeous,” Olivia said, hanging the dresses up on the door.

“I feel like a damn blimp. But Damon has been pampering me so much lately. I’ve been enjoying it.”

“You will look stunning. I can’t wait to see them on you. Since all I saw was the photo you took.”

“I have to get Rose ready. Would you mind walking with her down the aisle? I don’t want her to be nervous and go by herself.”

Olivia smiled wide. “Absolutely. Of course.”

Olivia helped me get the dress on Rose and put curls in her hair.

“You look very pretty,” I told her. “And when you scatter the flowers down the aisle, Olivia is gonna walk with you.”

“Okay.”

A knock came on the door and Olivia opened it. “Claire is here.”

I was already sitting at the vanity in the hotel suite we had rented. Damon, Matteo, and Rowan were in his own suite.

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