Page 54 of Angel's Forever

He pressed a kiss just below my ear before he spoke. “I’ll find you wherever you go if you leave. Hudson is right. You belong with us. You always have. It just took us all a long time to realize it.”

That was the final confirmation I needed to make my decision.

“I love you all. I realize now that I could never leave you and be happy. I need you all in my life. We all have our own role to play in this relationship, I see that now. I’m so sorry I said I would leave you, because I know I never could. I just needed you to make me see that.”

As I stood there with the men I loved holding me, a huge weight was lifted from me, and I could finally see a future. One where I would truly be happy.

I COULD FEEL MY anxiety rising as we pulled into the parking lot of the clinic. I could tell that Gabriella was feeling it too. After all, it was the first time we had been back since that fateful day.

We both knew that we had to do this. Gabriella would be spending the next six months coming here for appointments, so we had to get over our thoughts and fears. Nico pulled into a space and stopped the car before getting out and helping Gabriella from her seat. I sat there for a moment, feeling my heart start to beat faster in my chest as the memories of that day came flooding back. I felt a hand on my shoulder as Hudson spoke.

“It’s okay, Gino. Nothing is going to happen. Antonio, Luca, and some more of your men are all here watching. I promise nothing will happen to any of you again. We’ve learned from our mistakes.”

I knew there was no reason to worry. It still sent shivers down my spine, and I thought it always would. I got out of the car and headed over to the clinic with everyone else. We were due to enter through the back door, one that I knew very well. The amount of times we had called Monica when something had gone wrong on a job and it wouldn’t have been fitting to go to the ER was too many to count. Nico pressed the comm button and let Monica know that we were there. The buzzer sounded, and we walked inside.

Monica and another lady were waiting for us as soon as we walked through the door. Monica’s face lit up when she saw Gabriella, and she immediately walked over to her and placed her arms around her.

“I am so happy that you are safe and relatively unharmed. We were so worried when we heard what happened.”

I could see that Hudson had made the right choice with Monica. She had always been extremely helpful to us when we needed help. However, she seemed to have really taken to Gabriella and genuinely cared about her and the pregnancy.

“Thank you, Monica. I’m glad to be here too, and desperate to see Munchkin again.”

We all looked at Gabriella with confused expressions.

She turned and looked at us all and started to giggle. “What? I had to give this little one a name, and Munchkin seemed right.”

We all started to laugh along with her. I was sure we would all have our own nicknames for the baby, but for now, Munchkin would do.

The lady who had greeted us with Monica spoke. “Shall we get you all settled and ready to check on this one, then, Gaby?”

“Sounds perfect, Victoria.”

Gabriella walked off with Victoria into one of the rooms to get ready for the scan.

Monica turned to Hudson. “How is she doing? She looks well, but is she covering up her real feelings?”

Hudson let out a sigh. “Honestly, I don’t know. She seems fine, but I’m not sure if she is hiding the truth. I was thinking of getting her some help. After all, Vincent has done some terrible things to her in the past.”

Monica nodded her head as if in agreement. “I’ll send over some contact details. I know a few good people she can talk to, and some support groups.”

“Thanks, Monica.”

Just then, Victoria walked out of the room.

“We are all set up, if you would like to come in.”

Everyone started to walk toward the room, but I held back. I didn’t know why, but I just felt as though I shouldn’t be here. After all, there was no way the baby was mine if Gabriella was nearly three months along. This was their time. I also didn’t want to be there if something had gone wrong. Nico turned and noticed I wasn’t following them.

He walked back over to me. “Gino, what’s wrong? Don’t you want to see our baby?”

That was the point, though. It wasn’t ours. I knew I had said I wouldn’t care who the father was, but after everything that happened, I just didn’t feel right attending these appointments.

“It’s not mine, though, is it, Nico? It can’t be. This is your and Hudson’s time. Mine will come.”

Nico was about to try to talk me around when Monica popped her head out of the room.

“I have a very impatient mother-to-be in here demanding that all her men are in this room within the next ten seconds, or there will be consequences.” She winked at us both before she continued. “If you catch my drift.”