The Don's Widow Carries His Heir novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The Cake on the Table
I opened my mouth to answer.
"Zio," said Antonia.
She was in the doorway with three paper cups of coffee.
Neither of us had heard her come back.
"Zio," she said again, and put a cup down beside him. "Uncle. Until you marry her mother."
Nick went red to the ears.
"And then?" I said.
"Then she calls him whatever she likes." Antonia sat down on the end of my bed. "She's a Castiglione. She'll do it anyway."
The christening was set for the third Sunday in June, at Holy Ghost.
I made the cake myself.
Three tiers. Lemon sponge, ricotta cream, sugared violets on top because the florist said violets were for girls born in spring.
I started it at four in the morning, in my bakery, the way I start everything.
The baby slept in a basket on the office desk, under the invoices on their spike.
The Johnston truck had come and gone. The radio was on low.
Nick was at the steel table across from me.
He'd been there every morning for six weeks, before his shift at the cooperative's office, learning sfogliatelle.
I'd stopped throwing them away in the third week.
This morning there was a tray of them cooling at his elbow.
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