“So were you.”
“I spent more time working behind the scenes, handling the business and financial aspect of it. You literally had boots on the ground, even with your big, pregnant belly. I love you, Chanel, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
She laughed. “There’s nothing I would want to do about it, baby.”
Santino wiggled and threw his arms in the air as he leaned toward me. Drool dotted his chin and bib, but he smiled happily at me as I took him from his mother’s arms. I leaned over his head and kissed her lips.
Santino slobbed on his cookie before he fisted it and placed it back in his mouth again. I threw the ball across the yard and watched as Titan ran to fetch it. We had finally sold my old house and bought a new one with six bedrooms and seven bathrooms.
Aside from my family coming to spend the night often, so that they could spend time with Santino, we had another little one on the way. Chanel had recently found out that she was pregnant again. She was eleven weeks along, and we had just received the call yesterday evening that we were having a little girl this time.
We knew that we were so blessed. We had been through difficult marriages, heartbreak, stalking, and betrayal, but we bounced back. Finding love with each other was all that we needed to heal.
Titan raced back to bring me the ball, and I sent it out again. He ran off again, and Santino gurgled happily behind me.
“What do you think about Coco Giada?”
I glanced back at my wife and shook my head. “I think you’re taking your love of all things Coco Chanel too far.”
She laughed. “Okay, back to the drawing board.”
She glanced at her phone again, and I retrieved the ball from Titan’s mouth again.
“Aliyah Sophie?”
“Nope.”
“Leilani Adriana?”
“Nope.”
I could hear her sigh dramatically. She smirked hard. It was the same thing she had taken me through when she was pregnant with Santino.
“I’ve got it. Chloe Giovanna.”
“I love it.”
I threw the ball again, and I heard her moving behind me. When she came to stand beside me, she placed her hands on her hips.
“What?”
“Why is that name better than any of the others that I listed?”
“Because there was excitement in your voice. I didn’t hear it when you said the other names. There wasn’t the same level of excitement. In fact, you sounded like you were questioning it and wasn’t sure. When you spoke the name Chloe Giovanna, it was with confidence, the same confidence that you had when you decided that Ethan’s first name would be Ethan.”
She reached up and tapped me on the nose. “You’re a very wise man, husband.”
I gripped her ass and pulled her against me. “Say that again, love.”
“You’re a very wise man, husband.”
“Just the last part,” I murmured against her lips.
“Husband.”
“Yeah.” I grabbed her hand and placed it between us and against my erection. “That’s what hearing you call me your husband does to me.”
“Ohhh, what would you do if I said that I love being your wife?”
