The Mafia's Babies by Kaycee Romano (little readers TXT) 📕

"Are you seeing Mr. Adesso?" She asked timidly.

"No, why?"

She looked relieved when she said that. "Then it doesn't matter. Take care of yourself."

With that, she left.

River was confused for a moment. But then she remembered that last year, when Mateo was admitted, Susan was the first nurse assigned to him.

Did something happen?

'Well, you know who to ask.'

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"Mateo, give me the damn phone!" Adam bellowed as he tried to get his hands on his phone.

The test results had been sent to him in the morning but he couldn't bring himself to open it.

"Capo, you are being extremely illogical!" Ricardo tried to reason with his leader.

"Look, I will open it when I am ready." He tried. He didn't know why but he was terrified.

He needed those kids to be his.

Not because he wanted River. Well, he did want her. That hadn't changed after one whole year of trying to get over her, but he needed those beautiful, angelic kids to be his babies and he was scared the results may come out negative.

"Mateo, there are lives at stake here. We need to act fast. We don't have time for you to be sweating around like some timid teenager!" Adam said. And for once in his life, though Mateo wouldn't say it out loud, the motherfucker made sense.

"Fine." He sighed as he tapped on his phone.

"CONGRATULATIONS. YOU ARE A FATHER!!!"

All of their heads snapped to the door to see Alessia grinning at them, Mateo's laptop in her hand.

"Why didn't I think of that before?" Adam pointed at his best friend's Mac and then turned to him, "OH MY FUCKING GODS, I AM AN UNCLE!!! TO TWINS!!!"

He threw his hands around Mateo while he just stood there, just digesting the fact that was thrown at him.

This is exactly what he wanted to hear. That he was a papa.

That he had children with Dr. River Johnson, the woman he wanted to marry since a year ago.

That he was the father to two of the most beautiful and amazing children in the world.

And it was so stupid that he still didn't know their real names. He had just heard them be called Lukey and Ki. That couldn't be their real names. He needed to start by finding that out.

There were so many questions he needed answers to.

Well, he knew who to ask.

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"Careful.." Susan was hovering over her daughter, afraid that she might drop the baby.

"Mom, I am fine." River rolled her eyes. "There's no problem with my hand- brain coordination."

Michelia chuckled, tugging a loose strand of her gorgeous auburn hair behind her ear. The same hair her gorgeous little son had inherited.

"No matter how much they grow, they are still babies to you." Susan told Michelia, brushing River's hair while Michelia nodded.

"We are all mothers here." She said, her Italian accent was super thick and super gorgeous. Everything about this woman screamed gorgeous. Leonardo was one lucky man. "You have twins, right?"

"The most gorgeous pair." River smiled, giving the sleeping baby back to his mother.

"Should you be walking around?" She asked.

"No." Susan replied giving River a disapproving look.

"Your vertebral column and spinal cord is most erect while standing upright-"

"I don't want to hear it, surgeon." The lawyer threw her hands up and took a seat while Michelia laughed.

"Where's your husband?" River asked, still standing because she missed it. She was used to spending most part of her day standing so she had gotten habituated to it.

"Downstairs. The cafeteria got some sick croissants." Her face instantly lit up. "Though it's taking him so long."

The three women sat there and talked, though it was mostly Susan instructing her on baby care with a few inputs from River from her own experience. They had learnt that Susan's mother died when she was young so she had said that she could use all the advice she could get.

"Don't talk to kids in baby language." Susan said. "I made that mistake and this girl didn't start forming basic sentences till she was almost four."

River narrowed her eyes at her. Why was she looking at her like it was her fault?

"Luckily, I didn't make that mistake." River said, a smug smile on her face. "Though Nanna taught Lukey some heavy words."

"Oh right, what are their names?"

"Lucas and Kiara. Lucas is six minutes older than Kiara." She smiled. They were the lub and dub of her heart.

"Aww.. The protective big brother."

"Yep."

"Michelia, the results came back-" Leonardo barged in with a bright smile but he stopped the sentence midway when he saw the Johnsons.

"Hey Doc." He took a deep breath and regained his composure.

She raised a brow and smiled. "I think we should leave."

"No, stay!" Michelia whined. "Spending time with this boring human is a torture like no other."

Leonardo looked thoroughly offended while Susan and River laughed. Nevertheless they left the couple alone with their son.

"You!" Valerie approached the women as soon as they walked out of Michelia's room.

"Uh oh." River muttered.

"Why can't you stay in your bed like a good patient?" She asked. "Practice what you preach."

"Yeah yeah." She laughed. "Let's go."

"I will make a trip to the cafeteria and come. Do you girls want something?"

"Thank you ma'am but no." Valerie said politely while River just rolled her eyes.

'Look at her, being all civil in front of others.'

"I will have a milkshake and a chocolate muffin." Anymore croissants and River knew she was going to hate it for the rest of her life.

Susan nodded, smiling, and walked away while Valerie pulled her in the opposite direction, to her room.