Carol Marinelli - Innoncent Secretary, Accidentally Pregnant

‘There would be Daniela, my mother, Evelyn and her twin girls when they come…She’d be surrounded.’ Luca stared at his daughter. ‘But more than that, she would know about you and know how much I loved you and how much I love her.’

He left no room for doubt.

‘What happened to my playboy?’ she teased.

‘He stopped playing.’

‘What happens now?’ Emma asked, because she had it all, here in this room. Here in her arms she had it all, and she didn’t know quite what to do with it.

‘We name her?’ Luca smiled. ‘Do you want to call her after your mother?’

She had thought about it long and hard and she thought about it again.

‘No,’ Emma admitted, because sometimes it still hurt. ‘Do you want to name her after yours?’

‘No,’ Luca said. He had forgiven Mia, and he was happy to see her with Leo, but, well, it was all too new and too much just yet. He didn’t even know what to do with his own surname, let alone pass on his mother’s first name too!

‘ Aurora,’ Emma said.

‘ Aurora?’ Luca played with the word in his mind and liked it. ‘It means dawn…’

‘And new beginnings,’ Emma said, gazing from her infant to her husband. They would follow their own course now. This precious clean slate they had been given deserved the very best they could give her, and that’s what she would get.

A new beginning.