Mateo has his hand spread wide on my belly, his lips kissing my neck and my back to him. After 3 orgasms we thought that some sleep is high needed. I still can't believe be accepts me and the baby; I could have sworn that he hates children, hates babies but maybe he can change after all...

"How long are you pregnant?" he whispers in my ear, his hand on my belly caressing it so lovely my chest tightens.

"8 Weeks" I reply, holding his other hand, which is under my head like a pillow, in my hand, tangling our fingers.

"That's long..." his hand moves lower but not low enough to the part I want him the most. "I feel a small bump; how the fuck didn't I noticed it before?" I feel him shaking his head.

"We both had other things to think about..." I whisper.

"Yeah, about that..." I feel his body tighten behind me, the muscles not as relaxed as before. "I want to say I'm sorry; I know I said some fucked up stuff but what I said is real" he takes a deep breath. "Not that that is helping right now...I'm going to be honest with you; I never had a choice but to marry you. I did it for a wrong reason and look at us now but I'm happy I did..."

"Why?" I turn my body so we're face to face and I see his sincere eyes looking me down.

"If I never did then I never would have met you; we didn't had a good start but know that I want to try again" I don't say a word; again? Like in...Not divorcing? "If you want to break up with me, I'm fine, I'm not going to push you like I did before BUT if you want to try again then I would be the happiest man in the world" he kissed my forehead, then my cheeks and finally the top of my nose. "I don't need an answer right now; I'll follow your speed"

"Mateo..." I take a deep breath as well "I'm not perfect either; I made a lot of mistakes like yelling at you when it was unnecessary or begging you to stay home while your job requested you to go to the club" I laugh. "We're not perfect, we both knew that this was going to happen but we both denied it because deep down we knew that we didn't want to lose each other" his hand cups my cheek. "I'm sorry to for everything I did or said that might hurt you"

"Thank you" he whispers and collects my lips, his tongue slipping past them and I moan again; I love this man, I can't deny it anymore.

"I love you..." I whisper against his lips and he freezes.

"What?" he asks with his brow furrowed.

"I love you, asshole"

"And I love you, Butterfly"

"So when will we know the gender?" he asks me, playing with my hair.

"Around 20 weeks, so we have some time left"

"I'm sure it's a boy" he says confidently.

"Why do you think that? I could be a girl" he shakes his head fiercely.

"No, every El Ricci's first child is a male so this one must be too"

"What if it isn't?" he arch a brow; how in the world did I ever thought this man could hate me and the baby? Look at him now, excited for it and its still so far away.

"Well, I wouldn't be disappointed if that's what you're thinking. As long as it has your smile and kind eyes I'm the happiest father in the universe" the makes my heart melt all over again; I actually hope the child has the blue eyes of its dad. Those can't get lost! I love Mateo's electric blue eyes. Every time I look at them I fall all over again like the first time we met. How everything got weird with the diner...

"I got a question"

"Shoot" he circles my breast and I'm trying to keep my mind straight.

"So...Mateo, stop!" I beg playfully when he pinches them.

"Alright, alright, I'll stop. So, what's the question?"

"Why did we have a diner with the whole family in the beginning when you knew you were going to marry me anyways?" he blinks a few times and then laughs; huh? "What's so funny?" he snorts one more time and answers.

"Look, you need to know I was bored and stuff so I thought it was funny to scare you all off a little...Mom didn't knew about the arrangement; she thought dad set me up but that wasn't true...anyways, I wanted to see how things got; I didn't really needed to company, I could easily scare the Chins away, what I did by the way...ProtectPower was just something extra; I heard it was a good investment" he looks at me. "I'm happy I did listen for ones" yeah, otherwise we never would have met. "Simply put...I was bored and looking for distraction; I'm 30 and it's a shame on the family I wasn't married..." right, soon Olivia will marry too... "So I thought, why don't I marry someone that I could use?" he looks away embarrassed.

"Well, it worked out" I shrug.

"It did but how I did it is wrong, I see that now...I was just so blind by the idea how much power I could have and how fast I've grown since I married you" he takes my hand and kisses my knuckles. "But I realized I didn't got stronger by having New York and Italy...I got stronger because I had you by my side" tears for in my eyes; who knew Mateo would be this romantic? "If I could go back in time I would have handled it completely differently"

"I think we both would" I cup his cheek and kiss them, loving his warm body against mine.

"I'm happy we got that out of our system" I nod in agreement; I'm so happy we can talk like adults about this situation; yes, we made mistake but mistakes are there to be solved and we're doing that now. "I can I ask a question now?"

"Yes"

"When you left with Ben, did something happen?" he tries to hide the jealousy behind those eyes but I doesn't work; I know him to well for that.

"Honestly?" he nods; his grip on my hips tightens. "He did asks if we didn't worked out, maybe he and I could go on a date or something" I stare into his eyes, waiting for any reaction but he doesn't give me one.

"W-Would you have given him a chance if we weren't here right now?" I shake my head and grin at his stutter.

"No, I wouldn't...The younger me would maybe give him a change but Ben and I never could be a thing" he nods my answer in appreciation. "Would you have given Kath another chance f we weren't lying here right now?" he's shocked at my direct question, I see on his surprised face.

"No, she and I broke up a long time ago...Kath was fun, yes, but she wasn't really wife material...Did you knew she and Enzo are still seeing each other?"

"W-What?" I blink a few time and he chuckles.

"Exactly my reaction when I saw those two together"

"Do you think they would date soon?" I ask curious; he and Kath, who would have thought that? I never really put much thought in those two...First Olivia and Sebastian, then Bella and Celeb and now those two?

"No, I don't think so" he replies, bringing me back to reality. "What they have is just a simple fling; Kath is going back to Italy soon, her mom setting her up with some rich guy while Enzo is planning on staying here"

"Do you think the reason why he stays is for Madison?" he arches a brow at my theory but consider it. "You know how he looks at her when she passed us, saying goodbye before leaving the building"

"I did...Enzo did mention her a few times today" we both laugh; this is nice, we're like a real couple gossiping about who is with whom and if it will work out. "Just another quick question, do you want to tell people you're pregnant?" I think about it for a minute; do I? I don't know...

"Maybe we should wait" his brow furrow again, pain shooting into those eyes and it hurts me to watch this. "Wait until I'm in my second trimester...then we're sure the baby is alright and stuff" that's sound like a big lie to me; I want to tell everyone I'm pregnant but also not. I don't want Mateo's family to interfere with us; I don't want my child to grow up like Mateo did. "Bella is the only one who know so far" he nods, understanding.

"Look" he starts. "I don't know what you want but if the baby is born I want it to grow up like a normal family; mom, dad, maybe even Lucy and Liam around..." I nod.

"But what we want is difficult, Mateo" he looks confused. "I want too that the baby grow up with a dad and mom but I want a house with a yard" I say dreamily. "Maybe even a pool and dog, a nice neighbored with good schools; I want us child to grow up in a healthy environment where danger is something he doesn't know"

"What you try to say is that you don't want our child to grow up like I, Olivia, Celeb and Liam did?" I nod, scared of his reaction. "I can work with that" he smiles. "I'm happy you don't want either...Just for the record, I don't expect out little boy to take over the Family business"

"It could be a girl but I'm happy we think the same" he smiles at my answer and kisses me again.

"I know it's a boy, Emily, I feel it in my guts"

"Well, I think I know better because the baby is literally in my guts" he chuckles and pulls away.

"Right, forgot" he sits up, searching for something and I furrow my brows; what did he forgot? "Wait right here" he walks over to his suit jacket which lays on the ground far away from us, my panties next to them and when he bend over to take whatever he needs I bit my bottom lip; his ass is a work of art... he comes back, a small box in his hand but I know it's not a right because it's too big for that. "Here" I he sticks it out for me to take.

"What is it?" I ask curious.

"Open it and find out" he grins, sitting in front of me. Opening the box, I gasp when I see the most beautiful necklace I ever seen.

"Mateo this is..." I examine it, my mind still not processing this; it's a diamond necklace with a small butterfly in the middle, it's simply yet gorgeous design...I don't want to know how much he paid for this.

"Do you like it?"

"Like it?" I say, shaking my head and I feel his body tensing.

"I know you don't like too much bling so I thought this was perfect but if you hate it then-"

"This is perfect Mateo" I smile up at him to find him already grinning at me. "Do you want to put this on?" I ask and he nods. Holding my hair out of the way, he puts it on, struggling with the ends a little but managing anyways. I look down, staring at the necklace and I feel Mateo's breath on my neck.

"You look beautiful" he whispers before kissing thetender spot between my neck and shoulder, holding my belly...