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We aren't out of the woods just yet, but I feel so much better knowing as of right now everything is okay.
"Thank you so much," I tell her as one of my men joins us.
She'll be escorted to the door. Even though she will be paid handsomely for her home visit, she really didn't have a choice in coming out or offering her services.
Entering our bedroom, I close the door behind me. Aria looks over at me and watches my movements, but she still doesn't speak.
"Let’s get you in the shower and get some food into you before you get to sleep," I tell her.
She nods but still says nothing. I assume she's trying to process what had happened.
After helping her up into the bathroom, I get the water going for her. While the water is heating up, I help her remove her clothes. There's nothing sexual about the moment, and yet I still find her the sexiest woman I have ever seen. The last thing I want is for her to think is that I'm doing this for some sex, so I quickly turn away so she doesn't see how hard I am.
"I'm going to get you some clothes. Why don’t you go ahead and get in the shower?" I tell her, leaving the room.
Once back in the bedroom, I take a few deep breaths, willing my cock to go down before I grab some of the clothes that she likes to sleep in.
When I walk back into the bathroom, I stop dead in my tracks. The sounds of my wife crying in the shower fill the room and they absolutely break my heart.
Quickly stripping out of my clothes, I join her in the shower. Then I reach for her and thankfully she comes willingly and buries her face in my chest and continues to sob.
"What's wrong, my love?" I ask, trying to soothe her or get her to talk. But she continues to cry, so I gently rub her back, letting her get it all out. I’m hoping that when she's ready, she'll talk to me. Though as I wait and seeing every tear that falls, it shatters my heart a little more.
Watching her sob gives me a new resolve to end the Ricci family. I will dismantle it and they will never walk in this city again. They will be an example of what happens when you touch and mess with my wife.
"Matteo, the relief I felt when you came was overwhelming. I wasn't quite sure if you would, but I kept telling myself that you would come and save me. But I began to doubt. Then you showed up, and it was such comfort that filled me. When Eric offered you the name of the person that you've been looking for, I was certain that you were going to choose the name over me. So convinced that I started to prepare myself that I was going to die in that warehouse."
When she starts crying all over again, I realize that maybe I haven't let my feelings for her show or even told her. I know I haven't given her the safe space I had hoped I had, and that's on me. Something I need to fix.
"I will always come for you, Aria. Because I am in love with you, I will always choose you. Since that first night we were together, I fell in love with you and I didn’t think it was possible, but I have fallen even deeper in love with you," I tell her, honestly. But it just seems to make her cry harder. So I hold her tighter, letting her get it all out. Everything I've read about pregnancy says her emotions are amplified and sometimes can overtake her, making her unable to control them.
Telling her I loved her first puts me in a vulnerable position. But she's mine no matter what, so it's a chance I'm willing to take.
"I thought that these feelings I had were crazy. That it was just the whirlwind of it all. But I love you too," she says.
I freeze the moment she says it because there's no way I just heard what I think I heard.
"Say it again, baby girl," I beg her.
Sniffling, she looks at me with a shy smile on her face. "I love you, my husband," she says. Then locks her eyes on mine.
The combination of those words has me so damn turned on.
"I love you so damn much. I want you, and I want us, and I want our family that we're growing. I will always choose you. And now I'm going to show you just how much I adore you."
Hot shower sex is just the beginning of me showing this girl how much I love her and our family.
Epilogue
Aria
A year later - Christmas
This Christmas, we have so much to celebrate. It's our first wedding anniversary and our son's first Christmas. Really, it's also our first Christmas together since we didn't truly celebrate last year.
We also have the success of my bookshop, which I suspect is in part to my husband, even if he won't admit to it. The bookshop is making money and so much so that I was able to hire a manager. It’s worked out perfectly as I only have to work part-time when I want. The rest of the time, I stay home with my family.
Though I still go in a few times a week to check on things. Because I love reading new books and finding books to stock the shelves with, I do much of the ordering. Whenever there’s an event, I'm there taking part. One of the other fun aspects of the job is planning those events.
