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The kids of the Mancini and Bastianini families have been meeting their other halves. Their family is getting bigger and better. It’s part of the reason I took the job at Lucciola Memorial Hospital. Even after what my papa did to the Mancini family, they still welcomed me and my brothers with open arms. We were so afraid that they would shut us out and that we wouldn’t see Lorenzo and Giovanna again. And now we’ll be joining them with Renee. I know all the women will embrace Renee. And no one will make us feel bad for our life choices.
“I can’t wait till you’re pregnant with our baby.” I say as I kiss her.
“Me too. I still can’t believe that I found all of you. And that I get to be with you all. Are you really sure all of you are okay with not knowing which of you is ‘daddy’?”
I nod. “Technically since we’re brothers, we’re related to the baby no matter what. So no matter what we will all love our babies.”
Renee hugs me tight as I feel her sigh.
“I’m a lucky woman. And our babies will be the luckiest of all. They’ll have three wonderful daddies.”
“And the best mama ever.”
I lay my hands on her belly. There’s a good chance that she’s already pregnant, and that makes me over the fucking moon happy.
Christophe
Our papa wasn’t happy to hear that we’re all moving to Lake Renegade. He’s worried that we’ll renounce our part in the Southside Mafia and join the Chicago Mafia. I’ve talked to Enea Mancini, he’s the don of the Chicago Mafia. When we talked, we decided that having both mafia families in play is a smart one. It gives us more coverage in Illinois, the Southside Mafia has been around for as long as the Chicago Mafia. And we’ve earned a lot of respect in our territories. As they have in theirs.
We still haven’t told Renee what Laurent Enterprises is and what we do. My brothers and I discussed it yesterday and we know we need to tell her. But first we need to know that she’s definitely going to be with us. Then we can tell her who we are and what we do. I wasn’t lying when I said we owned businesses and are legit. I just left out the mafia parts and well the non-legit things we’ve done. And probably will do in the future. I just hope it doesn’t scare her away. I don’t think any of us could handle that loss.
We’re trying to give Jérôme some time with Renee. I know he’s going to miss her even if it’s just a couple of days.
“Fuck. It’s papa.” I say to François when my phone rings.
“Great.” He sighs.
The last time we spoke to our papa, he wasn’t very happy with us. It wasn’t even the fact that we’re all with the same woman. It was because we won’t be living in Sprite Lake. I told him that I feel like we need this, we love our papa. But we miss Lorenzo and Giovanna too. This move will make it so we can be with them. And we can spend time with our nephew, Giovanna’s son, Rowan. Two years ago, she married the star defenseman for the Chicago Redhawks, Declan O’Reilly. Rowan is almost two years old now and we don’t get to see him as often as we want.
“Hey, papa.” I answer.
“Have you thought more about staying in Sprite Lake?”
I sigh.
“No, papa. We’ve made up our minds and I told you why. This isn’t to hurt you. We need this, we’re not leaving you. We just need to get out and do this. François and I are still going to work with you. That will never change, we just want to be close to Jérôme and to Lorenzo and Giovanna. You have to understand that.”
I hear my papa breathing. So I know he didn’t hang up on me. But I know that’s not what he wants to hear either.
“And this girl? She has nothing to do with your decision?”
“No papa. Renee isn’t the reason that we’re moving. I told you that.”
“But if you don’t move, you won’t be able to share her right?”
I sigh again.
“Oui, papa. But again, she’s not the reason we’re moving. Okay. She’s not the only reason. Jérôme has been dreaming of this head of ER position. And we want to support him.”
“You can support him from here in Sprite Lake.”
“I’m not going to argue this with you, papa. We’re moving. Jérôme will be home tomorrow and he’s packing up for the move. We’ll be home in two days and we’re doing the same. Enea has said that you can come to Lake Renegade.”
“He says that. But you know he doesn’t mean it. The great Enea Mancini would never really let me step foot into Lake Renegade.”
“If he didn’t mean it, he wouldn’t say it, papa. Enea is a man of his word, you should know this by now.”
He huffs into the phone. “Well my children don’t want to be with me.”
