The Brambilla's, The Beginning

Chapter 18

The Brambilla's, The Beginning

When they were upstairs she carefully removed his shirt. Seeing the blood on the bandage which was on his shoulder she knew it was more than a flesh wound. "You're a liar."

He was shocked at her outburst. "What?"

"You said it just grazed your shoulder and I can see it was much worse than that. If we are going to make this work between us you have to always be honest with me."

"Okay, you're right. The bullet did go into my shoulder, but it wasn't deep and the doctor removed it easily. I just didn't want to scare you. I guess this means you'll have to do most of the work when we make love."

"As if you're going to be getting any of that for a while." She looked at his bloodstained bandage and went to walk away.

"Where are you going?"

"You need a fresh bandage so I'm getting the first aid kit."

When she came back she made him sit down on the bed as she carefully removed the covering from his wound. It broke her heart to see the stitches and knew that it had to have hurt. "You're going to have to take it easy for a while so that you don't rip the stitches open."

He watched her face as she cleaned his wound and placed a fresh covering over the stitches. "You're going to make a great mother someday."

She lifted her eyes to look at him. "What makes you think that?"

"The way you're so gentle taking care of me. I can picture you cleaning up our little one's cuts and bruises and mothering them. We should start a family right away."

"Let's wait until we're married."

"Well, considering we're getting married in less than three months we could start now. Throw away the pills."

"Are you sure?"

"I've never been more sure of anything in my life. I want a baby, our baby. I want to feel him growing inside your stomach, watch him or her grow up and take their first step. I want to see them get married to the love of their life and have children of their own. I can guarantee that you will be the hottest grandmother around."

She started laughing. "Oh so now you're thinking of me as a grandmother? Let's not rush it." She placed her hands on his face and pulled him in for a kiss.

"I want you to get on top of me and make love to me," he said when the kiss was broken.

Putting her hands on his chest she pushed him down onto the bed. "Not tonight, now get some sleep."

He was still asleep when she woke up and going downstairs she started breakfast. She heard footsteps behind her and as she turned around Eddie was walking towards the coffee machine.

"Morning beautiful. Is Leone still asleep?"

"Yes, he had a bit of a restless night so I let him sleep in. I'm making some breakfast, would you like some?"

"Yeah I could eat," he said, taking his coffee he went and sat down. "You know you don't have to do the cooking. He does or did have someone coming in to do that for him."

"I like cooking, and it's so much better when you cook for more than one person." She placed the plate with bacon and eggs and toast in front of him. "We're not having one of those traditional weddings, there won't be any bridesmaids or ushers. But I could sure use someone to walk me down the aisle and I was hoping that you might do it."

He looked at her with a big grin on his face. "It would be my honour to walk you down the aisle and give you to Leone."

They were eating their breakfast and talking when Leone came down.