Page 66 of Twin Surprise for the Italian Doc
She’dseen pictures of women breastfeeding twins at the same time but how on earth did they manage it? Surely the only way it could be possible would be to have someone else to help position them?
Both babies were crying now.
And so was Georgia.
She desperately needed help and she missed her mum so much it hurt.
She missed Kate, too.
But most of all she missed Matteo.
The noise level in this smallhouse was so overpowering it was astonishing that Georgia could hear anything else—like the slamming of a car door. Maybe she noticed because it happened more than once.
Was it Sean, perhaps? Or some of her other friends from work?
Whoever it was, she wasn’t going to be able to pretend that she was coping brilliantly but she could, at least, try. She pushed tangled tresses of her hair back fromher face and then scrubbed at those tell-tale tear tracks.
She could hear voices outside now.
A firm, male voice, speaking in...Italian?
Georgia’s heart leapt. Matteo was here.
He had come back...
But he wasn’t alone. She caught a snatch of female voices, who seemed to be arguing with him.
Her heart dropped like a stone from the astonishing height it had just achieved.
This had been herworst fear, hadn’t it? Having to face an entire family of angry Italians who were determined to claim their own.
Somehow, she managed to scoop both her babies into her arms and, as if they sensed the significance of what was happening, they both stopped crying as the door opened and their father walked in.
One look at the way Matteo was standing told her that he was as tense as he had been thelast time she had seen him, when he’d come into her hospital room. And one look at his face told her that he had, indeed, come to claim his own.
The question that she couldn’t begin to find an answer to, however, was whethershecould possibly be included in that number.
‘I need you to tell me something,’ Matteo said quietly.
He had said that to her once before, hadn’t he? In the car that nightafter Kate and Luke’s wedding. When he’d been about to ask her if she’d already known she was pregnant the night they’d first made love.
And she had felt as if any safety barriers around her had just evaporated. That she was standing on the edge of a cliff and the slightest wrong move would be catastrophic.
She was on that cliff edge again but this time the catastrophe would be if Matteo wasgoing to vanish from her life, not insist on being a part of it.
‘Were you telling the truth when you said you loved me?’
And here it was. An opportunity to tell Matteo the absolute truth and Georgia didn’t hesitate for even a heartbeat.
‘Yes. With all my heart, Matteo. From the moment I met you, I think. And for always...’
For a long, long moment he was silent, his gaze holding hers fromacross the room.
The corners of his mouth curved as if he was about to smile and, in that moment, Georgia knew that everything was going to be all right. Better than all right, judging by the way her heart was soaring again. She needed to learn to trust what she could feel and she wasn’t going to let her head argue the toss about anything this time. Matteo still loved her. It looked as thoughhe had even forgiven her.
But both babies chose that moment to start crying again and, at the same time, a sound from behind made him turn his head.
‘I said to wait outside, Mama... That Georgie and I need to talk...’
