The Firsts: A Guzzi Legacy Companion Novel (The Guzzi Legacy Book 7) by Bethany-Kris

Author:Bethany-Kris [Bethany-Kris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mafia romance, contemporary romance, family saga
Publisher: Bethany-Kris
Published: 2020-12-20T18:30:00+00:00

24.

Vanna

THE hot bath water soaked into Vanna’s skin and calmed her senses. Vanilla clung to the air, compliments of the bubble bath she’d poured into the tub while it filled. She also dimmed the lights in the room and lit the floating candles that floated in the large Jacuzzi tub.

It wasn’t that the day had been hard. Quite the opposite, really. She just needed a moment to decompress and process everything. Not just the fact she was pregnant, but also that now she knew what she was having—a little boy.

Sometimes, people needed a second.

Vanna was one of those people.

She’d managed to zone into the sound of her favorite singer belting a ballad from the speakers of her phone resting on the counter that she hadn’t even heard the bathroom door creak open. It was the shadow of his form crossing over her in the water that had Vanna lifting her gaze to find exactly who she expected. She wasn’t scared—couldn’t be when it was him. No matter what, if the two of them were in the same room, she swore she could find him just from the feeling of his presence alone.

God.

She kind of loved that.

“Babe,” Bene murmured.

She found his dark eyes looking her over in the tub, and then falling on her nineteen-week swell that barely peeked out above the hot, bubbly water. Subconsciously, maybe, or perhaps it was just a need to touch her little bump, she pulled her hand from the water to place it overtop her stomach. Beneath her palm, the baby shifted.

“I wonder if he can feel the warmth?” she mused. “He moved.”

It wasn’t big movements. Some pregnant women—not that she knew a lot of them, but she talked to women who had been pregnant before and also stalked online forums because she needed someone to talk to sometimes about this—said it could be uncomfortable. Vanna had yet to get to that point in her pregnancy. Right now, her little guy’s movements were all flutters and pops inside her belly or against the surface when she pressed her palm to him.

“Do you think so?” she asked Bene again.

Overhead, Bene smiled. “Probably.”

She couldn’t help but grin at the way his smile turned soft the longer he stared at her. “What is that for?” she asked, pointing one dripping wet finger at his face.

“Hmm?”

“That ... that smile, Bene.”

“You, mostly.”

Vanna laughed, and dared to cut her hand through the top of the water and bubbles so that just a bit would come out of the tub to splash him. “Mostly.”

He barely reacted to the new wet stains on his slacks and dress shirt. She didn’t know where he’d thrown his blazer after arriving home, but that was fine, too. There was something to be said for the way Bene looked in dress shirts and dark slacks. The way the fabric molded to all the hard, fit lines of his body was art, really.

It should be appreciated.

Vanna tried to admire it as often as she could. Thankfully, Bene just happened to be vain enough that he enjoyed her perusal.

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