Page 50 of Undeniable

“Are you coming to the Zoo, Tasha? Why are you still in jammies? Let’s go!” He whines excitedly.

Gio and I chuckle as we slowly ease apart. Gio turns to Alessandro and puts his hands on his shoulders.

“Alright, how about we go scrounge up some breakfast while Tasha gets ready?”

Alessandro nods as he races out of the room and down the stairs. I laugh lightly as I toss the blankets off of me and stretch for a moment before padding towards Gio. As soon as I reach him, he bands his arms around my lower back and begins to ravish my mouth, craning his neck down to meet me. Far too soon for my liking though, he breaks the kiss.

“To be continued,” he breathes over my lips.

I bite my lower lip to hold back the wicked grin attempting to spread across my face as I nod. He tosses me a sultry wink before strutting out of the room. I find myself audibly sighing with a stupid cheesy grin on my face before I make my way to the bathroom.

Once I am showered, shaved and dressed for a summer day at the Zoo, I wander downstairs to find Alessandro and Gio eating breakfast at the little table in the kitchen. I am about to walk up to them when I hear my name brought up.

“So, buddy. I wanted to talk to you about Tasha,” Gio starts.

Alessandro looks to him while munching away on a piece of bacon and nods. Gio stays silent for a few moments like he is trying to compose his thoughts before he continues.

“I like her.”

Alessandro’s brows furrow. “Yeah, me too.”

Gio laughs as he wipes his hand down across his face.

“I know. But I really like her. I want her to be my girlfriend. Is that something that you would be okay with?”

Alessandro still looks confused. “She is your girl friend, just like Seraphina is mine and Antonio is my boy friend.”

Gio lets out a sigh and shakes his head. I guess he wasn’t thinking that a 6-year-old may not know the difference. Especially a 6-year-old who has only ever known his father to be a single man.

I can’t deny the way my heart flip flops and my stomach dips to hear that Gio wants me to be his girlfriend. I mean, he is telling me all the time how I am his and all of that stuff, but we have never talked about labels, except for when we agreed that there would be none in the beginning. But somewhere along the road something changed. Lines were blurred and now it is most definitely obvious that this thing between us is in no way casual. It is probably the most serious and real thing that I have ever felt in my life.

“Alessandro, you know how much I love your mother, right?” Gio tries again.

Alessandro nods.

“She was an incredible woman and would be so proud of the boy that you are and the man that you will become. She will always be your mommy and that will never change. I want you to know that even if I am with Tasha, she will never try to replace your mommy.”

Alessandro looks almost disappointed for a minute before he speaks.

“So, does that mean Tasha won’t be my new mommy? Because if I could pick a mommy, I’d pick her.”

Okay, my heart literally just tripped over itself. To hell with Gio wanting me to be his girlfriend, Alessandro loving me that much has turned me into a puddle of goo on the kitchen floor. I love that little kid so much, and Gio is right. I would never try to replace Isabelle, no matter what happened between Gio and I. But I do love that I get a chance to love him in my own way.

Gio smiles softly at his son, choosing not to answer. Alessandro seems to understand that their conversation is over for now and continues to munch away at his breakfast. I choose then to make my entrance.

I smile at Luis as he greets me in Italian. Gio and Alessandro both turn to me and hit me with identical smiles that practically knock me on my ass. One is downright adorable while the other is sinfully sexy.

Walking around the table, I get to Alessandro first, placing a quick kiss on the top of his head.

“Morning sweetie.”

“Morning,” he says over a mouth full of toast.

I chuckle lightly as I look over to see Giovanni watching me carefully, a sweet smile playing at his lips as he arches a questioning brow as if to ask, ‘Where is my kiss?’

I bite my lower lip for a second before I take a few steps closer to him and drop a quick kiss against his lips. He keeps it PG but the mirth swirling in his eyes tells me that I will be getting the unrated version tonight.Can’t wait.

Once we eat our breakfast, we are out the door with our security car following behind us as we make our way to the Zoo. 1 bag of popcorn, 2 cotton candys and 3 stuffed animals later, we are coming to the end of the exhibits that we haven’t seen yet.

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