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

"Yeah, I knew about that too." River sighed. "I got to know while we were in the hospital when I got shot." 

"That was the announcement. Now disperse." Alessia said. 

"I would have been less angry if you had said you were a lesbian." That was all the comment Abrianna made. 

And that was how the Adesso family came to know about the next non-purebreed on the way. Of course, Adam got punched in the face by Mateo for keeping this big a secret from him, and River had to intervene and remind him how scary Alessia could be due to which both of them kept the secret from him. Adam still had to digest the fact that he was becoming a father. 

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"Why the beach?" Mateo was still pissed at the world. Deep down, he himself and River knew that he was happy for the both of them. Mateo could not think of a man better for his sister than Adam. He was simply wounded that he had been kept in the dark for this long. 

"Because we are in Amalfi, you dumbass." River laughed as she dragged him to the waters. 

"I am not in the mood for this, River." 

Lies. He was always in the mood for romance when it was his lady love. 

"You sure?" River let go of his hand and held her hands up in surrender. "Because I can wait you know. I will tell you the important thing I was talking about some other time." 

Mateo closed his eyes, knowing very well that he will never be able to win this fight because he did not have the strength to wait. 

"Okay okay, I lose." He put his hands up in surrender. "Now, would you kindly tell me what's going on?" 

And then his face lit up again, "Are you pregnant?"

River scrunched up her face. "What is with you? Why are you always asking that?" 

Mateo scratched the back of his neck. "We have two kids." 

"Exactly, why do you need more?" 

"You don't want any more kids?" He looked thoroughly disappointed. And he had that look on his face that gave River baby fever. 

"It's not that I don't want more kids. It's just that I want to know why you want more kids."

"Because I didn't get to see the twins' infancy. Nor did I get to see you pregnant." He pouted. 

River blinked. That was the reason? That's probably the cutest reason out there. 

"And what's wrong with wanting to have more kids with the woman I love?" Mateo asked, grabbing her by her waist. 

"You have a point there." She said. 

"I have something very urgent to tell you." River said, dead serious. 

Mateo's eye brows furrowed, his playful cute side disappearing at once. "What is it?"

"I love you." River breathed out. 

And Mateo felt his heart stop. He was sure that he was hearing things. 

"What did you just say?" He asked, just to be sure. 

River smiled. What the hell did she do to deserve this goofball? And when the hell did she become the kind of woman who would fall for all this goofiness. 

"I said I love you, you dumbass!" She yelled in his face. 

Mateo laughed out loud, tears of joy filling his eyes. Who said a made man of the Mafia can't cry tears of joy? 

"I love you too, you stubborn woman!" He hugged her tight before pulling back and capturing her lips with his. 

It had been a tough few months for the two of them. Ever since they met one year after meeting at the hospital, and five years after their first encounter, they had gone through a lot. One got stabbed and got in an accident with their children, the other one got poisoned and then shot. But at the end of it all, they were together. 

And they were in love. 

"I am the luckiest man in the world." Mateo said after he pulled back. 

"You sure?" River asked. 

"Pretty sure." Mateo didn't skip a beat in replying. 

He hugged her again, closing his eyes and enjoying the moment, because he knew that he would be busy planning a proposal after this. 

"Oh, and one more thing." River smiled into his shoulder. 

 "I AM pregnant."

The end