The Mafia's Babies by Kaycee Romano (howl and other poems txt) 📗

"RIVER!" 

River jumped to her feet, her eyes wide as Alessia ran out with the test in her hand. 

"It's positive?" Jacqueline asked. 

"IT'S POSITIVE!" She yelled, her eyes filled with tears and dread. "I can't believe I have a f*cking Adam Smith inside me!"

River snorted which made Alessia glare daggers at her. 

"Hey, it could be an Alessia Adesso inside you." River threw her hands up in surrender. 

"This is a secret between the three of us!" Alessia pointed her finger at the two women. 

"What?" They said in unison. 

"Nobody speaks a word about this until I am ready to do it myself." She said, dead serious. 

Jacqueline and River looked at each other. 

"Alright." Jacqueline shrugged. 

River nodded her head, though she was very wary. Alessia had proven that she was good at keeping secrets as long as she wanted. River would not be surprised if she ran away again and came back three years after giving birth to the child. More than that, River did not know if Alessia even wanted to keep the child. 

Of course, it would be the woman's call and no one had a say in the matter. Her body. Her choice. But River simply hoped if Alessia decided not to keep the child, it was because she truly believed that she was not ready for the child. Not because she thought she didn't deserve the child or because the child would hate her, because of her profession. 

Alessia Adesso was slightly rough around the edges, but she was one of the sweetest persons that River had ever met and she wished all the happiness in the world for that assassin. 

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"It is almost over." Sebastian said proudly as he sat down next to his best friend. 

"It would have already been done by now if it wasn't for some idiots who thought they knew what they were doing." He couldn't help but take a jab at the two men, who were on time out by River after she found the two of them on the grass, pulling each others' hair after having some argument about what color the roof of the tree house should be. 

"I am going inside." Mateo said, sulking. 

"You are not going anywhere until the two of you apologize to each other." River could not believe that she was having to do this to two adult men in their thirties, one who is father to two kids and the other with a child on the way even though he did not know it yet.

"I need to use the washroom, babe." He rolled his eyes. 

River gave her boyfriend a pointed look. "Fine." She muttered after a while. 

Mateo let out an annoyed breath and left the table. 

"I have a question." Sebastian said as he grabbed a slice of apple pie. 

"Don't ask." Alessia rolled her eyes, taking Adam's hand and him squeezing it. 

"When are you planning to tell him?" He asked.

"YOU TOLD SEBASTIAN?" Alessia yelled, turning to Jacqueline and River, who almost fell off their seats at Alessia's rage. 

"No, we... d-didn't." Jacqueline stuttered. 

"Why do they need to tell me?" Sebastian asked. "It's clear as day that the two of you are dating. Except, for some reason, my thick-skulled brother in law doesn't seem to see it." He shrugged.

River rolled her eyes - at the fact that Mateo was addressed as the brother in law. They were not married. Yes, they were in a relationship. Yes, they had two kids together. Yes, he was the man she hoped to end up with. Yes, they had pretended to be husband and wife for a while. But seriously, she hadn't even confessed to Mateo yet. They could wait, couldn't they?

"Oh, you were talking about telling Mateo." Alessia slumped in her seat, relaxed again. 

"Yeah, what did you think I was talking about?" Sebastian asked. 

Alessia looked at River, River looked at Jacqueline and Jacqueline looked at Sebastian. "Nothing, we thought.. uh.. that you were talking about River confessing her feelings to Mateo." 

Adam raised a brow, taking a drink. He was not convinced by the act that the girls were putting up. He knew that they had locked themselves up in River's bedroom for a long while. What could they be hiding?

"What's there to wait for?" Sebastian asked. "Even Mateo knows that you love them. You just need to verbally express it to him." 

River gave her best friend a flat look. "Do you think that I don't know that? I am waiting for the right moment." 

"Any moment is the right moment when you are in love." Jacqueline batted her eyelashes at River, earning a playful shove from her. 

"RIVER!!!" 

River had a mini heart attack as she jumped to her feet, as Mateo stumbled out into the patio. 

"What's wrong?" The rest of them also stood up from their seats. 

"Is everything alright?" She asked, concerned. "Aren't the kids up in their room?" 

Breathless, Mateo held it up. The f*cking positive pregnancy test. 

River and Jacqueline gave Alessia the side eye. She had left it in River and Mateo's bathroom.

"You are pregnant?" Mateo asked.