This was my first Mature story, it's cringy, it's confusing, it's....it's not it. I used the Jane the Virgin plot and changed it up...like the guy doesn't have cancer, or own a hotel, he has an ex-wife, but his sister isn't a drunkard.

Unedited.

Hate on CHARACTERS is allowed idgaf about them but ntm on me

Accidentally Artificially Insemination

CHAPTER ONE

Pregnant, that's all I could see on my report. Pregnant, of course, it wasn't the only thing on my information, but I'm pregnant. I couldn't believe my eyes. I'm a twenty-two-year-old med student who has enough money for one person (Me). I'm even more scared about money because I have a twin, which makes it a 50% chance I might have twins, which means I will have to go on diets a lot more. I already know in my mind that I love my baby(s), and there's no doubt that I'm going to keep them. I don't have the heart to do anything else with the baby, even if it means going on many diets. But the question is, how? I'm a virgin. I feel like a dark skin Jane the virgin. My boyfriend, Alessandro, had told me that he wanted to stay a virgin until marriage. I had no problem. I didn't care whether I was or wasn't a virgin until marriage. I have no reason to cheat, even though I am not happy with him in the relationship. I've wanted to leave him, and I needed a reason, so my mother wouldn't get on my neck. Of course, pregnancy isn't the answer, but it's what I have right now.

"I'm happy for you," The doctor was an acquaintance of mine. Kandi Moore was her name, and even though she is a doctor, her family runs a vast business. She can make anyone's life hell, especially if they try to hit on her two little brothers, who were both older than me, considering that Kandi's nine years older than me.

"Are you sure that I'm pregnant?" I want to make sure that I didn't see anything wrong. Kandi fidgets around, and again I think of Jane the virgin. "KANDI," I yell. "Did you artificially inseminate me with someone's SPERM!"

She hesitates. "Look, you shouldn't keep the baby, I know an abort-"

"No! Kandi, how?! I came in for an annual checkup! You never said anything about insemination."

Kandi looks into my eyes. "No, you can't keep that baby, you're twenty-two! You just graduated college!"

Kandi was acting weird. She's getting heated.

"It's my choice. I've always wanted to be a mother. I'm pregnant now, so I'm going to be a mother." Kandi's face turns red. She looks mad, but I can't tell. But I can tell you that I'm as mad as hell. She inseminates me and then tells me to abort so she won't get in trouble. "Whose sperm is it? Why did you inseminate me? Is it one of your brother's sperm? Does your brother have cancer?"

Kandi sneers. "Whether it's my brother's baby or not, if you don't get rid of that baby-,"

"What are you going to do?!" I yell, how dare she?! It's my baby. I'll choose its destiny.

Kandi groans. "Minari, you're a Harvard graduate, and you got into Harvard's medical school with a scholarship, not to mention you're a part-time assistant, you have a lot going on for you, a baby isn't needed right now."

I don't need Kandi's sorry-ass pity. I have a lot going on for me. That's why I can have my baby without worrying. All I need is to find my baby's daddy.

"Kandi, tell me who's the baby's father."

"Why would I tell you? You're-"

"You would tell me because now I have the power to sue and take away your whole career, so who's the father?"

Kandi sighs. "He'll find you," She says softly. "I'll make sure to tell him."

I nod. "You have a month if he doesn't find me, or he's not the father, you know what will happen."

I didn't like blackmail, but if I need to, I will. I walk out of the doctor's office, down in the lobby. A pregnant lady with her husband rubbing on her stomach, smiling and giggling, makes me churn. I rushed to my car, put my head on the wheel, and started sobbing. I'm not mentally ready for a baby.

CHAPTER TWO

I got to my apartment complex, and to my surprise, Alessandro was waiting for me. With his perfect gym body, slick black hair, and blue eyes, any woman who didn't know him will fall into his annoying trap.

"Hey, how was your day!" Alessandro walks up to me and tries to kiss me, but I avoid it.

"I'm pregnant."

Alessandro steps back. "What do you mean?"

I look dead into his eyes. "I said I'm-"

"You cheated on me." He's angry.

I underestimated him. This situation should've been a phone call or a text.

"No, I'm pregnant. I haven't cheated."

"We've never-"

"YEA because you're too busy sleeping with other women. Do you think I'm stupid?!" I sigh and calm myself down. "This situation gives me a perfect excuse to kick you out of my life."

Alessandro quiets down. "SO-"

"This wasn't working anyway; you might as well drive off now."

I cut him off.

"You're a slut." He says.

I nod. "Have a great life Alessandro." And with that, I walk away. I didn't want to waste a minute of my life watching him drive off.

I sit on my couch and wonder how to tell my twin sister and my best friends; I decide to keep it a secret for as long as it can be a secret. I call them on facetime.

"Hey! It's my favorite mirror!" My twin sister, Minara, yells into the phone. I roll my eyes.

"Minara, you don't have to yell. Goddamn it, we can hear you." Finally, Lizzo, our more reserved and quieter friend, speaks up, showing her glammed-up face.

"Where are you going? And where did you get the MAKEUP OMG!" Our louder dramatic friend Nala put her face up on the screen to get a close look.

"I was going-"

"Oh!" Minora cries, cutting off Lizzo. "We still have to finish our mom's backyard! She just texted me saying,

'You, your sister, and your friends should come to fix my backyard. You can't just leave it half done.'

We all snort and giggle.

"I forgot," Nala remarks, and Lizzo grunts in agreement. I had a reason to forget about the backyard, with all the unexpected news and break-ups. I don't know about Minara, Nala and Lizzo.

"We have to get pebbles, mulch, flowers, and probably stepping stones." Minara sends us the information, and of course, with them not knowing of my pregnancy, she gives me the job of picking up heavy 20 packs of pebbles. I need to keep my pregnancy a secret until my baby daddy shows up. Hopefully, he's around my age and has a decent job and a good sense of responsibility.

"Ok, I'll be available next week so, can we schedule for next week?"

Everyone agrees, and we hang up. I eat a donut and suddenly remember I have school the next day, so I take a shower and plop myself onto the bed.

I woke up to go to school the next day. I tie two pigtails behind my head, I put on an oversized black sweater dress, put my cute glasses on, pick up my books and place them on my chest, the classic nerd. I lock my door and get to the parking lot. As I walk over to my car, someone knocks my books off my hand with force.

"Hey!" I look up, and Alessandro and his friends are laughing.

"This slut," Alessandro starts. "Cheated on me, and she's pregnant."

One of his friends pulls off one of my pigtails. "Who'd be dumb enough to sleep with her?"

"She's hideous. I like light skins." Surprisingly, Alessandro and his friends are Italian, talking about their love for black women and excluding dark skins.

I pick up my books, only for them to be knocked out of my hands again.

"Look here," Alessandro grabs my face. "You belong to me!"

"I belong to no one!"

Alessandro slaps me.

He looks into the distance for a while. "Let's go. My cousin is here. I don't want him to see me."

Alessandro quickly calls his friends. They pull out my other pigtail and break my glasses then, they promptly leave.

I bend down to pick up my books when a shadow overcomes me. I turn around. A tall, light-skinned, great-bodied, small hazel-eyed and chest-length curly brown-haired man stands tall before me. I suddenly realized why Alessandro and his goons abruptly left. He sighs, then rolls his eyes and walks away.

My day doesn't get any weirder, and soon a week passes by. I meet up with Minara, Lizzo, and Nala. We all look kind of weird. We decided to fix our mother's (Minara and I's) backyard for her birthday. Of course, we've never had to wear any working clothes before, so our clothes came from the basement filled with Minara, and I's older brothers.

"Well, I never thought I would wear my own brother's clothing." Minara says awkwardly.

"I know! We should've known, last time we were here, we had to wear your brother's clothes, and now two weeks later, we're back where we are." Nala says, not liking her new look. Nala's a vibrant light skin, brown shoulder-length hair, and is a mix of Black and Hispanic, basically our black beauty in the group.

"I don't care. I just want to get this done." Lizzo whines quietly.

We giggle.

Lizzo is a dark skin girl with black upper back-length curly hair and small eyes, which she got from her Japanese father. Like me, my twin sister, my older brother Peter, and two younger sisters, Denerya and Jackie-Grace, Lizzo's mother is a dark skin Nigerian. She gets her skin tone from her mother and other genes like hair, eyes, and other assets from her father. Although my father is Korean and my mother is Ghanaian, my six other siblings are light-skinned, while the rest I mentioned are dark-skinned like my mother.

"Ok, let's go to Lowes," Minara says. Minara, like me, is a dark skin girl. Good body assets with bob-styled hair. I, on the other hand, have long wavy hair.

"I have stepping stones." Lizzo informs.

"I got mulch." Nala groans.

"I have flowers!" Minara yells.

"I have pebbles," I say under my breath. So we get our supplies. I get back first and carry 20 packs of 30 lb pebbles back and forth from my car to the backyard. The others get back twenty minutes later, and I help them take the supplies they brought back.

"The stepping stones," Lizzo pants. "Are heavy."

We laugh.

"Shouldn't your brothers be doing this?" Nala says, laying down.

I shrug. "I don't know what they're doing."

"Lizzo, aren't you dating Peter? How doesn't he know you're here?"

Lizzo and my brother, Peter, share a four-year-old son, Milo. They've been dating since they were sixteen and are living together.

"Nala, Peter has a job, a son, and me. So he has better things to think about."

"True," Nala says, shrugging.

We laugh and get to the backyard, start working, put the stepping stones at the entrance, pebbles decoratively around the yards, plant the flowers, and finish the backyard.

"Finally!" Nala exclaims. "I thought I was going to die. I miss Kairo!!!!!!!"

Kairo is Nala's husband, with whom she shares two kids.

Minara rolls her eyes while Lizzo and I laugh. "Girl, I have a husband and two kids waiting for me too. Chill."

Minara also is married and has two daughters with her Husband, Denni.

"Well, we all have kids, so let's go!" Lizzo giggles.

I was about to say I don't have a child, but I am pregnant, so that doesn't matter. We follow Lizzo out of the backyard, playing and having small talk when Lizzo stops.

"Um, Minari?" She points to my car. It had several gunshot holes, all the windows are fragmented, the tires are damaged, the battery was detached, and the words "SLUT" written on the car's hood. Alessandro, he did this.

"Minari? Who did this? What do they mea-" Nala's words seem to fade away, the earth spinning, then blackness.

I wake up in a bright room with beeping machines and realize I'm in the hospital.

"Is putting yourself in trouble a trend for you now?"

I turn my head around. It's the guy from the other day. He has on a black trench coat with a black turtleneck, skinny jeans, and filas.

"What happened? Is the baby ok?!"

He grunts. "Yea, you apparently, worked yourself too much over the last week."

I nod. The baby is ok.

"Why are you here? You-"

"The other day was a coincidence. Today, Kandi called me." He sighs. "You're pregnant with my baby."

My eyes bulge, I almost jump off my bed. "YOU-," I yell.

He leans back a little.

"What's your name? Are you Kandi's brother? Do you have cancer?!"

He looks a little surprised by my sudden outburst.

"First of all," He starts.

I realized his voice is deep and heavy. It's kind of hot.

"I don't know where you got the cancer idea from, but no, I don't have cancer, and yes, Kandi's my idiotic sister."

I nod. "You didn't answer my first question. What's your name?"

He rolls his eyes. "Valerius,"

I laugh.

He looks unamused. "What's funny?"

"It's just. Your name doesn't match your energy."

I laugh again.

He sighs and looks at his watch.

"Meet me at the Southside Columbus Mall, two days from now, on Thursday. I'm busy right now."

"I-"

He walks out.

I lay back in my bed, thinking about the countless things he would want to do in a mall. My door swings open.

"Minari!" My sister yells. "How could you not tell us!"

Nala and Lizzo nod.

"You're PREGNANT!" Nala yells.

"I'm sorry, I was going to tell you guys when my stomach was a little bigger."

I apologize, bowing my head.

"Who's the guy?" Lizzo asks.

"What guy?"

"The guy that got you pregnant!"

I sigh. "It's a long story." They sit down. I chuckle a little.

"I had an AAI."

Minara snorts. "A what?!"

"An Accidental Artificial Insemination."

"Ohhh," They say in unison.

"How did you get inseminated! Please don't tell me Kandi did that!" Nala exclaims.

"Yea, she did. She got the appointments mixed up, but she didn't tell me that she would inseminate me. She just did."

Lizzo gasps. "Shouldn't you sue her?!"

"Well, I offered not to do that if she tells me who the father is."

"So, did you meet him?"

I nod. "He's hot!!!"

I whisper, and they squeal.

"Go ahead with your bad self, make some hot babies!" Nala squeals.

I giggle. "So, is he tall? Does he have big feet?!" Minara asks excitedly.

"Um, Minara, why would I know about his feet?"

She shrugs. "Just wanted to know."

The other girls look at her weirdly.

"Enough about the mystery guy. We have to get you out of here." Lizzo says, holding a bag with my clothes in it.

"Yea, that hospital dress ain't suiting you." Nala adds.

I scoff and grab my bag to change in the bathroom. After I finished changing, we headed out, and we heard yelling, which is not very common in a hospital.

"I'm telling you, my girlfriend is here, and she's pregnant." The man yells.

"I'm sorry, sir, but you have to wait. Your pregnant lady, Minari, doesn't have your contact info. It's blocked."

"Who's that." Minara asks.

I shrug.

Lizzo presses on. "Let's go get a closer look."

We step into the lobby to find Alessandro arguing with the nurse.

"ALESSANDRO?!!" We say in unison.

I sigh and compose myself and walk over to him. "Alessandro, why? Why are you here?"

He dismisses the nurse, who scoffs.

Then he looks at me. "Darling, you're pregnant with my baby. Why wouldn't I be here?"

I blink.

The other girls look at me. I shake my head to confirm that he's not the father, and they sigh in relief.

I walk him to the door. "Alessandro! You are NOT the father, stop embarrassing yourself and make your way out!" I point to the door.

Alessandro sighs. "You're not going to let me see my child that I practically put inside of you! My child?!"

He raises his voice to make a scene. I smile and wave at people looking, then get back to my conversation.

"Shut up!" I hiss. "You know you're not. Alessandro, I don't want to see you again. What do you not understand, and let me explain, YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER."

He growls. "I WILL have you and this baby if it's the last thing I do."

"No, the last thing you will do is say your last words. If you come close to me again, get out of my face!" I glare at him. "You put me here! You destroyed my car!" I dismissed him, rolling my eyes in disgust.

I sigh and get back to my friends.

"What the hell did he want?" Nala says, laughing at the mess he caused.

"He says that I'm pregnant with his baby, and I'm the bad guy because I won't let him see his baby." I roll my eyes as I say my sentence.

Lizzo scoffs. "Disgusting, didn't he say he wanted to be a virgin?"

"But he still cheated?" Minara finishes Lizzo's sentence.

I nod my head. "Yea."

Nala shakes her head. "Let's stop talking about non-existent men and go to Dunkin' Donuts."

Minara moans in agreement, and we head out of the hospital. We get our food and split up to go home. I open my door, and I see Apollo, my cheetah, Athena, my panther, and Blue, my tiger, crashing on my couch. Yes, I still have imaginary friends at this age, I've had them since I was a child, the doctor said it helped reduce stress.

"You guys!" I squeal.

I hug them. Apollo, Athena, and Blue are my three main mystical creatures. Although they are standard, they don't usually talk in the wild, but my magical creatures do.

Apollo purrs. "We were bored, and Pumzika is acting dangerously again." Pumzika is one of my mystical creatures. She's a cheetah like Apollo and has a fierce attitude, one none of the others like to play with.

"Pumzika's an annoying cat." Athena says, with her silky, wise voice, Athena's a panther.

"Not a good idea." Blue says, picking her paw up. "Just saying." Blue's a tiger.

Athena rolls her eyes and growls.

"A- Athena?" Apollo hesitantly starts.

Athena picks up her head, her emerald green eyes locked on Apollo, making him even more nervous.

"P- Pumzika isn't a bad cat if you get to know her."

Athena growls.

"N-n-nevermind!" Apollo runs over to me.

I smile. "I got some news, guys." I say as I sit on the floor and caress Apollo's fur. "I'm pregnant!"

Athena, Apollo, and Blue give me the opposite reaction I wanted.

"How?! You're single?!" Blue says, walking over to me.

I roll my eyes. "Thanks for reminding me of how lonely I am, Blue."

"Who is the father?" Athena asks.

"A guy named Valerius." I feel heated, saying his name. It's a good thing I'm dark-skinned, so they can't see when I blush. "He's cute, great body too."

Apollo rolls on the floor.

"Your mom's going to kill you! I thought you had the talk with your mom. You have to be married before you reproduce."

"It's called sex, in human vocabulary, Apollo." Athena corrects Apollo for what seems to be the 1,000th time.

Blue giggles. "Anyways, if you're happy, I'm happy!"

Athena and Apollo purr in agreement.

"I didn't have sex with him. It was an accidental medical procedure." I say in less complicated terms.

"Oh." They say in unison.

"Oh! On Thursday," I giggle and squirm. "I'm meeting up with him to talk, I guess, but I'm happy!"

"Seems like you like him." Athena says.

"I do not. I'm just happy he's not a hobo on the side of the street."

Apollo and Blue snicker.

Blue opens her mouth. "You sure about–,"

"OK," I cut off Blue. "You guys can't spend the night, sorry, there's only one bedroom, and one me, and three abnormally huge creatures."

Athena and Blue share a suspicious look, and Apollo licks his paw.

"We have to get going anyways, miss. I don't like my baby daddy. I have to make sure that Pumzika is not killing anyone. You know she's pregnant again."

"Not surprised, Apollo likes to "reproduce." isn't that right?" I tease Apollo.

Pumzika and Apollo are working their way up to their 16th child. Of course, Athena and Blue have their children but not as much as Pumzika and Apollo.

Apollo sits down frustratingly, getting ready to teleport. "It's called reproducing anyway." Apollo says before he and the others fade away.

I sigh and order pizza, wishing I listened and learned how to cook when I get a call from an unknown number.

"Hello?"

"Minari," Alessandro says.

CHAPTER THREE

"Alessandro, what the hell?!"

"Minari, if you value your life and the life of your child, you'll listen to me."

My heart jumps. "Is that a threat, Alessandro?!"

"Call it whatever you like. You got pregnant with my cousin, Valerius Moreno."

I wondered why he said his full name like that.

I guess Valerius Moreno's his name.
"Alessandro, what do you mean by 'if I value the life of my child and me'?"

Alessandro chuckles. "I mean, I'm coming over to discuss our marriage. If there's any disagreement, I'll kill the child in you."

"There's-"

"I mean, come on, Minari, I'm willing to pretend that your child is mine too. What better man could you ask for?"

"Alessandro, I would marry Valerius over you infinitely before you." I hung up.

What a clown, calling me at this hour talking about stupid shit. I take a shower and try to forget Alessandro's disgusting offer. I climb my bed and fall asleep instantly.

The next day I went to the boutique to buy some clothes when I realized I was just going to the mall. I visited my mom, who made it hard to keep my pregnancy a secret. I did some homework and dropped some papers off at my job. My day ended typically, and for once, I never saw Alessandro throughout my day, and soon it was Thursday.

I woke up at 11:30 am and realized he never really gave me time. I decided to go at 1:30 pm, so I took a shower and ate a homemade egg, bacon, and cheese sandwich then watched The Real Housewives of Atlanta until 12:30 pm and went to dress up. I wore black and red denim shorts, a black top, and a black and red two-toned denim jacket. I went out at 1:00 pm and took an Uber to the mall. When I got there, I realized I had a lot of looking to do. I walked around for 30 mins before my feet started to hurt and sat down in one of those sit-down places.

"You're late."

I jumped out of my chair and spun around. "Valerius!" I hold my hand to my chest. "You, uh, you scared me there."

"Of course I did," Valerius says sarcastically. "Should've come earlier."

"You didn't give me a time to come, so I came when I wanted."

He decides not to comment on that.

"You wanted to talk to me?" I say, sitting next to him.

"About the baby, It seems like you decided to keep it based on the question you asked in the hospital."

I nod. "I have a question for you, Valerius."

"What?"

"How on earth did your sperm end up in a woman's hospital?"

He sighs. "I... actually don't know."

"How do you not know?!" I stand up in frustration.

Valerius grabs my hand and pulls me back down. "Kandi never told you?" He looks a little frustrated.

"My family's rich so they basically do whatever they want, so they wanting to prolong the Moreno family line doesn't come as a surprise to me."

"So they took it without your consent?!"

"Isn't it obvious." He sighs in annoyance. "My ex-wife is trying to tie me down to her by having my baby, but Kandi got the appointments mixed up and inseminated you instead of Shanna, my ex-wife."

"Your ex-wife-"

"It was an arranged marriage. I didn't go out of my way to buy her a ring."

"Ok," I said, secretly relieved. "Next question, how old are you?"

He puts his hands in his pockets. "I'm turning twenty-six in December."

"OMG, that's next month! Happy early birthday!"

He snorts. "How old are you?"

"I turned twenty-two in September!" I hummed.

"Great." he says, unamused.

I cleared my throat. "Uh, anyway, do you have any requests for the baby's name?"

He looks at me. "You're not even showing. You wanna talk about baby names?"

"Just enlighten me." I pleaded.

He sighs. "Whatever you want to name him or her."

I shove him. "Valerius!"

He groans and searches through his phone for a minute. "Fine, if it's a girl, Hokulani, Ailani, or Gianna."

"Wow, for such a mean person, you have such nice names." I shove him playfully.

Valerius grunts. "If it's a boy, Holokai, Kahoni, or Narco."

"I love it!" I said, clapping my hands. "For a girl, I like Hokulani, and for a boy, I like Kahoni. I never knew you were into Hawaiian and Italian names, though, interesting."

"My dad is Italian, and my mom is Hawaiian mixed with Cameroon and Spain."

Damn, this guy is mixed deeper than me.

"Oh wow, our kid is gonna be really confused about where he or she is from." I hold my stomach. "I'm not gonna be happy about being fat."

Valerius snorts. "There's always a gym."

I laugh.

We walk around the Mall, exchange phone numbers, and buy some Aunt Annies, though he insists he doesn't eat Aunt Annies. He's a little mean, but he's around my age, so I can make it work. We leave the Mall, and he drives me home since I took an Uber here. We get to my apartment, and I offer to show him around.

"Fine, but I'm not staying. I have claustrophobia."

"Oh, shut up, my apartment is not that small."

Valerius grins. The first time I have seen him look a little happy.

I open my door.

"Hello, Minari," Alessandro smirks, eating the last donut in my fridge while sitting on my couch.

"Alessandro!" I look at Valerius then back at Alessandro.

"Alessandro?" Valerius says, looking at me.

"I thought I said I was coming to discuss our marriage." Alessandro says, putting his legs on the couch.

"Marriage?!" Valerius says, so confused about everything.

I put my hand carefully on his chest. "Valerius, Alessandro is my ex-boyfriend. I'm not marrying this fool, and I-"

"Oh, shut up." Alessandro gets up, and I turn back to Alessandro. "You fuck my cousin and get pregnant and act like it's my fault I'm angry."

"I can't help your anger. I never CHEATED." I said, trembling in anger.

"We never had sex. Kandi accidentally inseminated her, like seriously, bruh, why are you here?"

Alessandro growls. "The question is, why are YOU here?!"

"He's here because he's the father of my child, and you are not. So get out, Alessandro."

"Minari, remember what I said," Alessandro lit a cigarette. "If you value the life of your child, you'll have no trouble marrying me."

Valerius pushes me out the way. "Alessandro, get the fuck out. You're pissing me off. She doesn't want you two-timing Tim."

"Don't like you don't cheat and fuck girls."

"There's a difference between fucking girls and cheating on them. I don't cheat." Valerius sighs in annoyance. "You're threatening to kill Lorenzo Moreno's grandchild. How is that going for you?"

I nod.

Alessandro growls and walks away.

"I'm not done yet." Alessandro says as he walks to his car.

I close the door, embarrassed. "I can't believe he did that. I'm so sorr-"

Valerius's lips came crashing down on mine, violently kissing me, but before it could get serious, he pulls away like I witnessed his secret.

"Shit." He mumbles as he walks out the door.

I gently touch my lips before shaking myself out of my spell.

I open the door. "Wait! Valerius."

He turns around, not very happy.

"I had a perfect time. I hope we can do it again."

He grunts. "Sure." Then walks away... again.

I walk back inside, smiling and maybe blushing; I can't tell. I watch a movie before falling asleep. The following day was like any other dull morning, I go to school, finish up, go to work, come home, and do absolutely nothing. Then I get a text. I jumped to get my phone. It's from Valerius.

My parents want to see me. Pack your stuff. We're going to Naples, Italy. Tomorrow and tell them about the pregnancy.

What? Why is he so blunt? He could at least try to convince me. What about the kiss he gave me last time? He ain't saying nothing about it, but hey, it's Italy!

Hey, no complaints from me, a free vacation.

We're going to meet my parents, that's it.

You're no fun :(

I got left on read, frustrated. I packed my stuff, but then I decided to call him and get on his nerves.

"Hello?" He answers.

"Heyyy, Valerius!" He cuts the phone off immediately, so I call him again.

"Oh my god, what do you want?"

"I want you to at least start a conversation with me, like, hey, how's the baby? Or How's your day?"

"Minari, right? You're not even halfway through your pregnancy, and you're annoying me," He says harshly. "I'm not trying to make stupid small talk at work, neither am I interested in anything in your life but you packing up to go see my parents. Don't call me again." He hangs up.

I feel so bad about calling him, but of course, I'm not going to miss a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy. I spent the rest of my time in the shower, thinking about what I did to deserve this, a mean ass baby daddy, and I'm going to be fat for the rest of these nine hard long months, just to give birth to a child with such a mean ass, no appreciating father who probably would ignore him/her. And worse of all, I'm scared. After all, there are no instructions for a baby.

I woke up the following day to find I slept in the shower, and my hand and feet were all weird. I got on with my day when I realized that Valerius didn't give me a time again. I hesitated to text him, but I did anyway.

Hey, I know you said don't contact you, but I need a time deadline to get to the airport.

He didn't answer. An hour passes. Two, three, and four hours pass, and he didn't answer. It is 5:00 pm. Where the hell is he?! I sit on my kitchen stool and eat some leftovers when I get a knock on my door.

I opened it. "What?!" I am pissed.

"It's time to go. Bring your stuff."

Valerius ignores my pissed face and walks back to the car.

"Aren't you gonna help me with my stuff?!" I yell.

Valerius sighs and turns around. "No, I don't remember telling you to pack three bags."

"I don't remember you telling me not to pack three bags!" Valerius's eyes turn blank and full of hatred, hatred you wouldn't dare mess with.

I gasp.

"Get your ass in the car, and don't ask a fucking question."

He gets in the car and slams the door. I sucked in my tears and put my luggage into the trunk of the car and got in the car and the ride to the airport was silent and long, so I slept.

"Wake up." Valerius says sternly, giving me a shove.

"Is that how you treat pregnant women." My voice was foggy and sleepy.

"Get up." Valerius pulls me out of the car while I whine through it.

I pull my hand away from him and give him a dirty look before walking ahead into the airport.

"Minari." He calls after me.

When I don't respond, he sighs and catches up to me. He gets the tickets, and we wait until 10:00 pm and finally get on the plane.

First-class is beautiful. We get beautiful seats and beautiful food, and apparently beautiful flight attendants.

"Hello," A skinny flight attendant with blonde hair tied up in an elegant ponytail walks up to us. "Would you like some champagne? And here's the menu." She throws the menu at me and hands a menu ever so gently to Valerius, then gives him a wink.

If I were a cartoon, they would see steam coming from my nose and ears.

She looks Valerius up and down in a seductive way. "So, what would you like, sir?"

"Uh,"

"He would like two Mojo Chicken Sandwiches with Jicama & Citrus Slaw and champagne."

Valerius glares at me, but I ignore him.

The flight attendant nods her head slowly and awkwardly. "Um, ok."

"You know what he would also like?" I say slyly.

"What?" She says in an annoyingly polite voice.

"He would like for you to act like a fucking flight attendant instead drooling on his dick."

She stutters a bit in horror and walks away.

I sit back in my chair.

"Minari!" Valerius whispers to me

"Oh, shut up, you wanted to sleep with her, didn't you, working your way to having two babies in the same year."

He pinches the bridge of his nose. "You're assuming something I have no interest in."

"Right, you have no interest in me, but you kissed me the other day." I clap back. "What are you gonna do to her now that you are not interested?! Fuck her till everyone on this damn plane knows your name?!"

Valerius puts his hand over my mouth. I can see through his jeans it turned him on. "Shut up and stay quiet for the rest of this plane, or I swear to god I'm gonna jump."

I push his hand away, and soon we get our food and champagne. Valerius finishes his champagne and takes mine while I eat my food in silence. If he wants to jump he can, I'm talking.

"Why did you kiss me?"

"Please stop."

"No, tell me why you did. You like me, don't you?"

He sighs. "It meant nothing."

"Then you could've stayed longer."

"Minari."

"Valerius." I say, I'm serious now, and he knows it.

I put my hands on his cheeks and turn his face towards mine. "Tell me the truth." He looks into my eyes, then removes my hands from his face and turns the other way.

"You're pregnant with my child, that's it. We're not dating nor will we ever date, you're mid." I stop my tears from coming. His words hurt, even if I had just known him for three weeks.

"But, I like you."

CHAPTER FOUR

Valerius turns his head to look at me again. "You're not the only one."

I suck in a deep breath and turn to face the window. I started to regret coming with him, so I slept to avoid him until the announcements came on.

"Flight attendants, prepare for landing, please." I stretch in my chair and sigh, all while avoiding eye contact with Valerius. I can feel his eyes piercing through me, but I look at the window with all my might until he stops.

When we land, I get up to walk out with many other people, leaving Valerius in the plane, sighing. I stop at the entrance and wait for his slow ass to get here.

"Minari." He says, walking up to me.

"What?!" The attitude in my tone annoys him.

"Don't walk ahead of me. You're going to get lost."

I roll my eyes. "Then walk faster."

He sighs and walks past me, and I follow him. He gets our stuff and throws my bags at me. "Aren't you at least going to pretend to be a good baby daddy in public?!" I hiss.

"No, I have my bags to carry."

"You have a porter carrying your bags, asshole!"

"Then load them onto the porter."

"Why don't you help me?"

He pinches the bridge of his nose. "Aiutala a mettere le sue cose nel facchino" (Help her put her things in the porter).

He says something in Italian, and the guys take my bags onto the porter. "Are you happy now?" He said, annoyed.

"Babo" (Fool), I whisper in Korean as I follow him out of the airport and into his family's car. "They didn't bother to come here?"

"It's a surprise. I had Rossi pretend like he's going to the mechanic."

So he is capable of being a nice person.

I scoff.

"What is it now, Minari?" he says bluntly.

"How nice of you to surprise your mommy and daddy."

He scoffs now. "Well, I can't let my stepmother, mother, and father see you in a crop top, and I knew you were gonna wear a crop top, so to save you from being criticized in Italian, I made it a surprise so they wouldn't come here and we can pass by a store and get you some clothes."

I have on a blue long-sleeved crop top. (Should have checked the weather in Italy. It's hot.)

I look at Valerius. He has his hair in a neat bun, a black t-shirt with flames on it, skinny black jeans, and black shoes with red and orange flame designs.

"What's wrong with my crop top?" I say, looking at it. "I should change into a shorter one. It's hotter than me up in here." I fan myself.

He snorts at my compliment to myself.

"My stepmother is old-fashioned, and my mother will argue with her, and my dad will try and hit on you."

I dare not question what he just said. I just nodded and went on with the car ride. We stopped at a shop. I could not mention the name, but we went in, and I chose a tropical dress with a hook connecting the skirt to the top.

He takes one look. "Nope, choose another one."

"But I like this one." I say.

"I don't care. Change it."

I stomp back to my dressing room. I grabbed a button-up dress with a belt, and some black pumps, and a headband. I look like a teacher, but then again, I'm not supposed to look sexy.

I come out, and he looks at me. "Perfect." He buys it, and I put my crop and shorts in my suitcase.

When we turn into the neighborhood, my eyes sparkle, a beautiful grand house on The district's hill, the epitome of uniqueness. This house was probably more significant than Italy. Well, not more important, but that's how beautiful it was. Even the driveway was pretty. We got out of the car, and his mother, I guess based on how they looked like each other, was so happy. She wore the same dress I picked up at the shop earlier, and I think Valerius felt my anger.

He quickly went to hug his mother.

"Mio figlio!" (My son!) She says in Italian, hugging Valerius tight. When she lets go, she notices me. "Oh, ciao sei la ragazza di mio figlio?" (Oh, hello, are you my son's girlfriend?)

"Um, I-"

"Mamma, non parla Italiano" (Mom, she doesn't speak Italian)

"Oh! Sorry. How are you?"

"I'm good, thanks. I love your dress." I say, glaring at Valerius.

"Thank you! Your girlfriend is so nice!"

"Actually, I'm-"

"Thanks, mom." Valerius looks at me. I know he's not pretending that I'm his girlfriend when he called me mid.

"Come, come. I have cannolis and tri-color cookies."

I instantly followed her. I was hungry and pregnant. I motioned for Valerius to follow me while the servants took our luggage.

"Fortunado!" Valerius's mom calls out, and a very tall man or I'm just very short walks over to us.

"sì caro?" (Yes, Dear?)

"Honey, this is Valerius's girlfriend. She doesn't speak Italian, so speak English."

I suddenly see where Valerius gets his bluntness from.

He greets me and shakes my hand. "Hello, what's your name?"

"Minari, nice to meet you!"

"Nice to meet you too, Minari." He smiles, then walks away with Valerius's mom.

"I thought your mom and dad were divorced." I whispered to Valerius.

"They are. That's my stepfather. They all agreed to live in the same house since my mother helped my father to be successful. Other than that, my father has never done anything but cheat and disrespect women."

I look at Valerius and cross my hands. "Disrespecting women runs in the family then."

Valerius opens his mouth to speak but decides not to.

I sigh and look at him seriously. "Valerius,"

He sighs. "What?"

"Please be a good father. I didn't ask to be pregnant. You know it's not my fault. It's your sister's fault I'm pregnant, and even if we slept and I got pregnant, it'll mostly be your fault. You don't have to love me but don't let it be the reason you can't love this child."

He looked surprised by my request, but before he could say anything, his mom walked back to us.

"Let me go call your father and his wife. Valerius, figlio mio, portala in cucina e portale dei cannolis." (Valerius, my son, take her to the kitchen and bring her some cannolis.)

Valerius nods, and his mother walks upstairs to get his father.

"I have to show you to the kitchen."

"Well, show me I'm hungry!"

He rolls his eyes and motions me to follow him. "So, your mother has a new husband, and your dad has a new wife?"

Valerius nods. "Yes, and they each had two children in their new marriage. I recommend you stay away from my dad's twin girls, Mona and Mina. They're like Cinderella's evil stepsister. Lisa Lisa, and yes, that's her name. My mom is a fan of the anime Jojo Bizarre Adventure."

I laugh.

"And her brother Giorno is way nicer, and they're not fake, like Fortunado, Giorno barely speaks."

I nod. "Ok, the first time you gave me helpful advice."

He rolls his eyes.

"Oh my god!" My mouth and eyes water. The servants filled the kitchen with desserts. "Which ones are the cannolis? I heard it was the bomb."

He smirks. "These." He picks up a plate with wraps with what I think is cream And chocolate chips placed on the cream.

I take one and bite. "Oh my gosh!"

I take the plate from Valerius's hands and eat every single one of the cannolis and move on to the tri-colored cakes.

"Don't you think you've had enough?" Valerius asks.

I sigh. "I'm not eating for myself. I'm eating for your baby." I point to my stomach.

He moves closer to me, making me hot. Again I am thankful for being black, or he would have noticed my blushing.

"Yea, ok." He whispers, wiping the cream from the cannolis I had on my lips. Right when I thought he was going to kiss me, his mom came down with his dad and stepmother.

"Valerio, sei qui?! E chi è questo?" (Valerius, are you here ?! And who is this?) His dad says.

"This is my girlfriend. She doesn't speak Italian."

"Your girlfriend ate all my cannolis." Valerius's stepmother said furiously.

"Marsilia! Be nice." Valerius's mother scolds.

"S-sorry, Mrs. Moreno, I was famished and the other Mrs. Moreno-"

"It's Ricci, Mrs. Ricci." Valerius's mother, Mrs. Ricci, corrects me.

"Um, Mrs. Ricci offered us some cannolis, which by the way, are delicious. Did you make them yourself?" At this point, I was rambling, Mrs. Moreno is intimidating.

"La tua ragazza è così Americana, è disgustoso." (Your girlfriend is so American, it's disgusting.) Valerius's stepmother, Mrs. Moreno, looks at me in disgust.

"Marsilia, you will watch your mouth around my daughter-in-law."

Valerius chokes on a tri-colored cake, and I laugh sheepishly.

"Your daughter-in-law?" Mrs. Moreno asks. "It's such a disgrace. Look at us and look at her. Do you want her to mess up our genes?!"

"What do you mean by that, Marsilia?! I think she's beautiful, plus you messed up our genes when you applied as secretary."

"You really want a darkie in our family?!" Mrs. Moreno says with no remorse.

"Marsilia!" Mr. Moreno finally speaks up.

My eyes bulge at her bold racism.

"The only disgrace here is you, Marsilia!" Mrs. Ricci yells in frustration and embarrassment and walks away, her quiet husband going after her to calm her down.

"Valerius." I say, looking at him, concerned.

"Portare un oscuro in famiglia" (Bringing a dark one into the family) Mrs. Moreno says, walking away.

Valerius pinches the bridge of his nose and sighs in annoyance.

"Nice to meet you, Minari," Mr. Moreno says, smirking appealingly before going after his wife.

Valerius sighs.

His parent's fight seemed to have messed up his mood again.

"Are you ok?" I asked.

"DO I LOOK OK?" He yells.

I step back a little.

"A woman I don't even know is pregnant, and she's annoyingly cute. She won't leave me the fuck alone, I wish she wasn't pregnant, so I could fuck her for talking back to me without hurting the baby!" He's angry, angry enough to pour out his feelings accidentally. "My dad is probably waiting for the right moment to fuck you, and my stepmother is stuck in the 18th century. I'm so fucking tired, I swear."

He starts to walk away.

"You know," I begin. "You can still fuck a pregnant woman. It won't hurt the baby."

He turns around to look at me and sighs. He walks back to me. His lips crash onto mine. He kisses me, grabbing my ass with such velocity. I melt into his arms. Valerius picks me up and walks us to his room. He immediately undresses me down to my underwear and pushes me onto the bed, and kisses me again, moving his mouth to my neck down to my collarbone until he gets to the lining of my bra.

"You won't need this anymore." He whispers as he takes my bra and throws it on the floor. I instantly cover my boobs, and he smirks, pushing my hand out of the way. His tongue touches my nipple ever so slightly. He's teasing me, and I whimper in frustration. He sucks on my nipple, pinching the other as I struggle to keep quiet. I thought I was going to die of pleasure when he stops all of a sudden, but I'm very turned on to wait for him. I pull him back on me and kiss him, taking his shirt and pants off.

I admire his chest tattoo. It reaches down to his right arm, and it makes me crazy for him. He's hard and grinding on me, and I fail to keep silent. Finally, I let out a small moan, putting a hand on my mouth.

"I want you to scream." He says.

"I can't. Your parents are here."

"Don't make me ask you again." I nod in defeat, and he takes his dick out.

The sight of it almost made me cum. Instead, I open my legs wider.

"I want you."

He smirks, kissing my inner thigh. "Where?"

"I w-want you inside of me."

"Good girl." He pushes in me, ignoring the fact he ripped through my virginity.

He starts slow, kissing me gently.

I ached for more. I wanted Valerius in me intensely.

"Scream." He instructs.

His slow thrust goes faster and deeper, hitting my newfound sensitive spots.

I moan. "Valerius, please!"

My nails dig in his back.

"Please, what?" He questions.

"Give me more! Fuck me! Oh god!" My toes curl up as he growls in my ear. He holds my neck going in more robustly and faster. I claw the bed sheets as I feel my peak rushing down. The sensations make me go crazy.

I arch my back. "VALERIUS! I'm cumming. I'm cumming!"

He thrust in me one more solid time, and I cum, shaking and gasping for breath, and Valerius pulls out, cum shooting on my stomach.

Valerius falls beside me.

"Valerius, what if they heard us?" I said, remembering that we're not the only ones in the house.

"I don't care. They should've thought about putting soundproof walls in when we complained about the sex noises as kids."

I laugh. "Oh my god, Valerius."

"I'm serious. Imagine having to go to school at 6 am, but you're up at 4 am because your mom and dad want to enjoy themselves."

I look at him. "Is that why you're always so grumpy?"

He grunts. "I'm not grumpy right now."

I chuckle as I get up. "No man is grumpy after having sex."

He slaps my ass. "Accurate enough."

I put my shirt on and threw his shirt at him. "I'm going downstairs."

Valerius groans. "Why?"

"I want your mom and stepmom to like me, plus we need to tell them about the baby."

He gets up and sits down on the bed. "I don't want you near Marsilia when she's in the kitchen." I raised my eyebrow in confusion. "What do you mean when she's in a kitchen? Is that where her powers lie?!" I giggle.

His face darkens. "No, every maid, nannie, cook, Marsilia caught sleeping with her husband, she'd wait until they went into the kitchen at the same time she was there, and Marsilia would take boiling hot water, soup, stew whatever was cooking and toss it on them. Burning their faces off."

"I'm not her maid Valerius."

"No, you're worse. Marsilia hates the way you look, act, talk, basically everything about you, and telling her about the pregnancy might push her desire to get rid of you and the baby."

"You mean she'll actually-?"

Valerius gets out of the bed and pushes me against the wall, trapping me. "Promise me you won't go in the kitchen. She's dangerous. Anywhere else, Marsilia is harmless, so anywhere else but the kitchen."

I nod. "But one question."

"What?"

"How am I supposed to eat?!" I giggle.

"There's usually always something on the dining table, so check there."

I smile. "Ok!" I plant a kiss on his cheek, throw on some shorts and rush out of the room.

"Minari!" Mrs. Ricci comes up to me and gives me a cheek kiss. "I'm so sorry about Marsilia."

"No worries, she's not the only one who thinks that."

I get a flashback of Alessandro and his goons.

"Nonsense, I don't accept that nature here. I'll make it up to you tomorrow. I see you like cannolis." She smiles wide then walks away.

I smile to myself. "Score." I whisper to myself.

"Score, what?" I gasp and turn around.

Two identical girls, I figure it's Mona and Mina. Valerius's warning play in my head.

"Hi!" I plaster a smile on my face. "It's nice to meet you two but, I'm starving, so I'll leave you two alone! Hope to get acquainted later, though, bye!"

But, unfortunately, my voice was high-pitched, and they probably didn't buy it.

"Wait," one says. "We'll come with you."

I smile. "Shit," I scream in my inner thought. "Ok."

We walk down the long stairs and the hallway into the kitchen.

"Oh! Signorine avete fame? Che cosa mangerai?" (Oh! are you hungry, ladies? What will you eat?)

The kitchen-maid notices us and asks us a question I don't understand.

"I'm sorry, I don't speak Italian."

"A maid like her doesn't speak English." One of the twins says while the other snickers. "I'm Mina, and this is Mona. I have long straight hair, and Mona has short curly hair. That's how to tell us apart. Plus, the maid said, what do we want to eat?"

"Oh, ok, I'm sure if you teach her how to learn English, she'll be great at it. I can teach her if you want."

Mina and Mona sneer at me.

"What do you want to eat?" Mona says, ignoring my request.

"Oh, um, Pasta." I say quietly.

They look at each other and nod.

"Ehi, stupida cameriera. Vogliamo la pasta." (Hey, stupid waitress. We want pasta.) Mina orders the maid.

She bows and walks into the kitchen.

"Sbrigati, maiale inutile. o nostro padre ti farà il culo." (Hurry up, useless pig. or our father will fire your ass.) Mona yells after her.

They laugh and sit in the dining area. I follow and sit across from the twins.

"So, you're our half-brother's girlfriend?" Mina asks.

I nod.

"I just want to ask one question." Mona says, giggling.

"Ask away." I say, not thinking through what her question could be.

Mona plays with her hair. "How is Valerius in bed? Does it feel good? I bet it does but you have experienced it so tell us."

"Mona!" Mina shoves her. "Sorry about her. She's just the crazy one."

I fake a smile. "There's always that one whore in the family, I get it." I answer Mona's stupid question.

Mona opens her mouth, but Mina holds her arm. "I'm sorry, Mona likes to mess with people. She didn't mean it."

"Oh. I'm sorry, I feel bad now." I instantly regret it. If she was joking, I took it way too seriously.

"I'm sorry too. I need to stop with these unfunny jokes." Mona apologizes.

Before I could change the subject, the maid comes in with three plates full of pasta.

"Tre piatti di pasta per tre signorine." (Three pasta dishes for three young ladies.) She says.

"Grazie!" I managed to pull google translate before she walked away.

She seemed surprised at first, but she became delighted. "Prego bella donna!"(You're welcome, beautiful woman!)

I didn't know what she said, but it made the twins very mad.

Mona stands up and yells at the kitchen maid. "Torna in cucina, sporco maiale!" (Go back to the kitchen, you dirty pig!)

"Come sta cucinando il nostro cibo questo maiale?!" (How is this pig cooking our food?!") Mina looks disgusted by the maid's presence; she almost looks like her mother.

The maid, teary-eyed, walks back into the kitchen. I felt terrible but decided to look for her after I shook the twins off.

I bring the pasta to my mouth when the smell hits me like rotten eggs mixed with dog shit. I drop my fork, run to the nearest trash can, put my head in, and puke. The twins pat my head as I puke, and when I'm done, I turn to face them sheepishly while Mina hands me a mouthwash.

"Morning sickness?" Mona nods as she says it.

"It's noon, idiot. She's probably just pregnant." Mina slaps Mona's head. "Is it your first time? It doesn't look like you know about what makes you nauseous or not."

My heart skips a beat. "What? No, I-"

"Don't lie, we heard Valerius and you talking, something about eating for his baby. Congratulations! We're going to have a niece or a nephew!"

Mina and Mona do a little handshake.

"Wai-"

They cut me off again. "We finished our pasta while you were throwing up, so we're going to meet up with friends. Addio!" They rush out, leaving me with the mouthwash they gave me.

I sigh and calm my breathing. With nothing to do, I go upstairs. Surprisingly, Valerius wasn't in the room, but I was too tired to mind that. I took a 6-12hr trip, got into some drama, had sex for the first time, and the twins Valerius warned me about know I'm pregnant.

I fell asleep with that thought, and I must have slept for a long time because the sun was down. Damn, I wanted to go to the beach.

The door swings open.

"Minari," Valerius says, leaning on the door frame. "Get up. We're having a family dinner."

I stuff my head in my pillow. "Ok, what does that have to do with me? I'm not your sister."

He sighs and sits on the bed. "This baby ties you to my family. So, therefore, you're a part of my family. Get up."

I pick my head up. "Aw, I-"

"Don't me regret what I said, Minari." Valerius rolls his eyes as I pretend to lock my lips and throw the key away. "When I said family, I mean everyone, Lisa Lisa, Giorno, Kandi, My twin Valerian-"

"YOU'RE A TWIN?!" I yell.

Valerius sighs in annoyance. "Yes, I have a twin. I thought twins were normal in this day and age."

"You can forget thinking there's only one baby in here."

"What do you mean? Just because I have a twin doesn't mean we're going to have twins."

"I have a twin sister." I say as bluntly as possible.

Valerius pinches the bridge of his nose. "You couldn't tell me this sooner?!" He sighs.

"Well, I didn't think you deserved to know sooner."

He gets up, looking a little scary. "Um, did I tell you how nice you look tonight?" I say, smiling sheepishly.

He grunts and walks over to me until he is only an inch away from my face. I think my hormones are acting up because I'm hot again.

"We'll talk about this later. Dress up and come downstairs." He whispers.

He turns me around, slaps my ass, and walks out.

Oh my god. I put on skinny jeans and a white lace see-through shirt with a white ten top. I would have worn a white bra under my shirt, but Valerius would be furious. So I wear black heels and go downstairs to the dining area.

Valerius's parents extended the dining table to fit the whole family, and from what it looks like, I'm the only one late because everyone's name is on the table, well, except for the twins. They're nowhere to be seen, and my name next to Valerius has no one sitting there. I walk to my seat nervously. Everyone stops talking and looks at me;

I sit down. "Hi." I say, smiling.

CHAPTER FIVE

"Hi!" A woman chimes up. "I'm Lisa Lisa, but people call me Lili! What's your name?"

"Um, hi Lili, my name is Minari, Valerius's girlfriend."

She squeals.

Mrs. Moreno scoffs. "Perché sei così felice che abbia portato in famiglia una ragazza del ghetto!" (Why are you so happy that he brought a girl from the ghetto into his family!)

Lili glares at her.

Everyone else tries to look away.

"C'è qualcosa chiamato razzismo, vuoi davvero essere un razzista?!" (There is something called racism, do you really want to be a racist?!) Lili raises her voice.

The man sitting next to her, who I presume is her brother, calms her down.

"Guarda il tuo tono intorno a me Lisa Lisa!" (Look at your tone around me Lisa Lisa!)

Lili ignores Mrs. Moreno.

"I'm sorry, I have a temper sometimes." She smiles.

"Oh no, it's ok! I understand." I look at Valerius, and he avoids my gaze.

"Valerio si è trovato una giovane donna bella e rispettosa." (Valerius found himself a beautiful and respectful young woman.) Mrs. Ricci says proudly.

"Chi è incinta." (Who is pregnant.) Mrs. Moreno adds.

Everyone gasps.

Valerius looks at me.

"What?" I say, looking around.

"Chi ti ha detto questa Marsilia?" (Who told you this, Marsilia?) Mrs. Ricci says, and everyone else ignores me.

Mrs. Moreno smirks. "I gemelli mi hanno detto che anche loro hanno un testimone. Francesca!" (The twins told me they also have a witness. Francesca!)

The kitchen maid from earlier comes out. She seems sorry and a little ashamed.

"Dì loro quello che mi hai detto." (Tell them what you told me.) Mrs. Moreno says to the maid.

"Ehm, signorina Minari, le è venuta la nausea mentre mangiava la pasta e ha vomitato, i gemelli le hanno chiesto della gravidanza e lei ha cercato di nasconderlo ma l'hanno sentita parlare con il signor Valerius di un bambino." (Er, Miss Minari, she got nauseous while eating pasta and vomited, the twins asked her about the pregnancy and she tried to hide it but they heard her talking to Mr. Valerius about a baby.) The maid spoke in Italian, and everyone else spoke in Italian and I got annoyed.

I stand up. "CAN someone please tell me what the hell you guys are talking about?!" I yell.

Valerius gently sits me down. "They know." Valerius sighs in annoyance.

"Valerius, what do you mean they know?!"

"They know you're pregnant."

My eyes bulge as I gasp.

"So it's true?" Mrs. Ricci asks.

"Your son brought a whore into the family!" Mrs. Moreno yells. "Lei vuole solo i tuoi soldi, Valerius!" (She just wants your money, Valerius!)

I sit down and grab Valerius's hand and give him an apologetic look.

"I'm sorry, but I noticed that the person responsible for my pregnancy is quiet." I turn to face her. "Kandi?"

"How is she responsible?!" Mrs. Ricci and Mrs. Moreno speak in unison.

"She inseminated me by accident, and yet she's here thinking I was gonna say, oh yea forgot my birth control!"

Kandi stutters. "It was an accident, I- I was supposed to inseminate someone else."

"Yes, she was supposed to inseminate me." A lady walks over to Kandi, who breaks out in cold sweat.

"Shanna." Valerius lets go of my hand and walks upstairs, visibly upset.

"Valerius!" I say.

He ignores me and continues to walk upstairs.

"That baby is mine," Shanna points at me. At this point, I was shameless and panicking at her words. I pick up my phone and call Valerius.

"Minari?"

"Don't Minari me. Get your ass down here now. How are you going to leave me with your ex-wife and family who talk shit about me? I swear to god, if you hang up this phone, I'm gonna come up there and drag your ass. Get down here!" I hung up.

Everyone looks at me.

"What?!" I say,

"I'm not an animal at a fucking zoo. Stop looking at me!"

Valerius reluctantly comes down.

"Valerius!" Shanna runs up to him and hugs him.

Valerius pushes her away. "Get off."

"She's carrying our baby, we're finally going to have a baby, and you're trying to leave me?!"

The rest of Valerius's family watch in awe.

I plaster a fake smile. "This baby has nothing to do with you. Kandi only inseminated his sperm, and my egg did fertilize, and blah, blah, blah. Anyways, I am the mother, and Valerius is the father, you Crystal, you can be an aunt."

She smiles back at me and pulls a piece of paper out of her designer bag.

"You're a surrogate! Valerius and I signed a contract stating that Valerius's sperm is for me to carry the first grandchild of the Moreno family. So if anyone else carries that grandchild, that person is a surrogate, and the child does not belong to them, them meaning you Minari, right?"

I look at the piece of paper, and there, on the bottom, is Valerius's signature.

I throw a glass cup at him. "Are you serious, Valerius!"

Valerius catches the cup. "I didn't know that someone was going to get pregnant, and I honestly forgot about the contract. I divorced her!"

"I'm not giving up my baby. I'M GOING TO GIVE BIRTH TO because you signed a stupid contract." Shanna laughs.

"This contract lasts for another 6-12 years depending on how well we raise the kid. You can get your kid back when the contract ends, or you can go to jail for defying the contract and be ruled as an unfit parent and never see your kid."

Tears stream down my face.

Valerius walks over to me. "We can get the contract nullified." He says, wiping my tears.

"Nullifying, or voiding, a contract requires that one of the parties shows proof that the contract is no longer enforceable. Once the contract is nullified, both parties are released from the terms of the agreement. What can you find about me that can nullify the contract?"

"Shut the hell up, Crystal Before I help you shut that damn mouth of yours!" I yell.

"Does she know who my father is?! More importantly does she know who I am?!"

Everyone gasps and whispers like it's some kind of drama show.

Valerius looks like he's about to fake his death and be someone else. I'm about 15-20 weeks pregnant, and If something happens, they won't be able to save the baby, speaking on terms that no miracle has happened since I got here, and I'm beyond stressed.

"Valerius, I want to stay at a hotel." I say, trying to keep it together.

I walk towards the front door. "Now! Valerius."

He sighs. "Without our stuff? Now you're just acting on anger."

I stomp back over to him. "Then get our stuff, or I'm taking our baby and going home!"

I focus on myself. I'm not an angry person, and I need to calm down.

I sigh. "I'm sorry, but with where I am in this pregnancy, I don't need the stress, I planned on keeping this baby, and I'm not trying to lose it."

Valerius nods and turns to the table filled with silently watchful eyes. Everyone except for Valerius's immediate family watches like they're watching a soap drama.

"Sei fottutamente inutile, dov'è la famiglia perfetta quando ne ho bisogno?!" (You are fucking useless, where is the perfect family when I need them ?!)

Whatever he said, it made his mother and father upset and everyone else ashamed.

"Valerio! Guarda la tua lingua intorno a me e tua madre." (Valerius! Look at your tongue around me and your mother.) Mr. Moreno says. "You guys are staying, Kandi you are too. Everyone else leave, now."

Shanna growls and storms out, she's lost this battle.

"Even me?" A man Identical to Valerius, his twin, says.

"Valerian?" Mr. Moreno looks at him. "Vivi qui?! Vattene, stupido ragazzo!" (Do you live here?! Go away, you stupid boy!) Valerius's twin, Valerian, picks his hands up, surrendering.

"I see you're still sore on me moving out, but bro, where did you find her? She's hot!"

Valerian speaks as if I wasn't in front of him.

Valerius scowls at him. "Just go, Valerian."

"Ok, ok, I'll just go to the ghetto part of America! That's where all the blackies are anyway." Valerian laughs as he walks out the door with the others.

"Sorry, Minari." Lili says, and her brother nods in agreement.

"We didn't mean to watch, but there was nothing we could do. If we didn't watch, we would hear, and if we walked out, it would be awkward or rude."

I nod. "It's fine. I would watch if I were you too."

Relief washes over Lili's face. "Well, I'm relieved, and I also have work tomorrow, so I wanted to leave with us on great terms!" She smiles and taps my shoulder as she walks away with Giorno. "See ya!" She yells as the door closes behind her.

Mr. Moreno sighs and sits down.

"We all know you don't like Minari, Marsilia, but nobody cares, so keep it to yourself." Valerius says sternly.

"How dare you talk to m-"

Valerius sneers. "I don't care how I talk to you. You're not my mother."

I touch his shoulder and take a deep breath. "We originally came here to tell you about the baby," I start. "but decided not to after Mrs. Moreno-"

"Don't call her that," Valerius cuts me off. "If Marsilia wants respect, she needs to respect," Valerius stares at me. "Understand."

Marsilia rolls her eyes, and I nod.

"Um, Marsilia showed a lot of hate towards me, so we were gonna wait till after the baby is born."

"I am sorry for the mistakes of my daughter, Kandi. If you want, we can give you compensation," Mr. Moreno says, in a suspicious voice.

Valerius rolls his eyes and sighs.

"I am not sorry." Mrs. Ricci says.

Everyone looks towards her curiously, and I start to panic at the prolonged silence. "I am not sorry because inseminating you is the best mistake ever. If Kandi inseminated Shanna, I'd never see my son smile the way he smiled watching you eat the cannolis." Mrs. Ricci smiles.

Valerius avoids my gaze. "Really? Was he smiling?"

I smiled at him, but my smile soon wiped off as I felt and saw Marsilia's fiery eyes glaring at me.

"You don't belong here, and the baby you talk of does not belong to you. You're an unfit mother, too young and immature, too poor. You probably don't have a dime!"

"You're right, Marsilia. I don't have a dime. My child has a very fortunate and wealthy father, and I will make sure my child doesn't end up like me, having to work for everything I've got." I look at Valerius. "Of course, I want your money. Who wouldn't?! But I'm not Marsilia. I'm not going to be jobless and bitter and living off of my husband's money, and I'll not have my child talk to the people who help cook and clean for us, like trash. And I'm not willing to give my baby up for millions or even trillions of dollars."

I glare at Marsilia, then turn to Kandi, who's been quiet the whole time. "Kandi," I say, startling her.

"Yes?"

"I have missed a lot of appointments, so can you take me to the doctor's for an ultrasound and whatever else is needed?"

Kandi and everyone seem surprised.

She hesitates. "Um, yea, yea, I can take you, but why? I-"

I smile. "Because, apart from your mistake, you're a very great doctor, and I don't like grudges."

She nods. "I'll take m-my leave now! I'll come tomorrow at 2:00 pm." Kandi practically runs out of the house before I can say anything.

"Minari?" Mrs. Ricci's husband speaks up. He rarely speaks, so I bring my full attention to him. "You are an odd girl, I'm sure keeping the baby is hard enough, and Valerius hasn't always been kind to you. I know that very well, and Marsilia is a racist and thinks we are in the 1700s. For that, you're very welcome into this family. We like strong people." Mr. Ricci smiles, and his wife squeezes his hand.

"Oh shut up, Fortunado, you old dog! You should stay quiet."

"Marsilia! Respect." Mr. Moreno scolds.

I smile at Mr. Ricci. "Thank you so much, Mr. Ricci, but I'm sorry, after tomorrow, we're staying in a hotel." Valerius opens his mouth to speak, but I cut him off. "I don't mean to be disrespectful, but Marsilia and I are not to be in the same house, and Valerius." I say, staring at him. "You owe me."

I walk to the stairs. "Goodnight, famiglia!" I studied a full hour to get the accent right, and I'm proud. "Valerius, I'm expecting you upstairs!" I yell before closing the door to my room.

I'm done with Italy.

CHAPTER SIX

I did my nightly routine (which has now included checking how big my belly is now.) I haven't really been keeping up with appointments. I'm a medical student with a part-time job. I have no time. So I'm using all my free time to go on this hell of a vacation.

I can feel my bump, and I smile. "Hi, little guy, or guys." I whisper to my stomach.

I sigh happily and walk out of the bathroom.

"Why do you want Kandi to take you to the doctor?!" Valerius's cold voice rips through my train of thought. Valerius sits on the bed with just sweatpants on.

"Did you use another bathroom?" I said, very distracted by how a person could be so fit.

"I asked a question. You gave me the wrong answer."

I breathe hard. "Valerius, it's late, and I have an appointment tomorrow." I try to get on the bed, but Valerius stops me.

"You have an appointment at 2 pm. You can talk, answer my question."

I fidget around. "Valerius, don't get mad when I say this."

"Go on, Minari."

"I don't know why. I just wanted something bizarre and smart to say."

Valerius's face gets scarier and scarier by the minute. "You might just be the dumbest person I know." He says, gritting his teeth.

"Valerius-."

"She could try and harm you or even trick you into taking something that might kill off the baby."

"Valerius," I say calmly.

I force him into a hug.

"Get off-"

"Come with me. You'll get to see your baby/babies." I look at him.

He has uncertainty written on his face. "I'll see the baby when you take a sonogram picture."

I laugh. "You almost seem scared."

Valerius pushes me onto the bed. "I'm never scared. I'll go; I need to make sure Kandi isn't doing anything fishy."

I wave him off. "You don't have to if you're scared, plus I'm studying to be in the same profession Kandi's into. I'm fine."

Valerius sits dangerously close to me on the bed. "I am coming. Get that into your cute little head." Valerius gives me a fake smile, then turns around to sleep.

Goal! I got him where I wanted him.

"Goodnight to you too, Valerius." I lay my head down and sleep.

I saw Marsilia in my dreams, causing a tumult, and so, therefore, you can't say I slept like a baby. I thought I would open my eyes to Valerius sleeping, and everything would be fine. Instead, I woke up in an empty bed, which made me more agitated.

Valerius is up early, which means he got a goodnight's sleep despite all the family drama that's been happening, or maybe he's a morning person.

I groan.

I just had to pick the day after all the mess to find out my baby's sex. I force myself up and do my morning routine (which, you know, includes measuring my pregnancy bump.) I wear a summery dress with floral heels and head downstairs into the living room.

"Good morning!" Mina jumps at me, smiling.

I frown. "Where's Valerius?" I say, hinting that I have no interest in talking to them.

"Hello?! Mina said good morning-." Mona crosses her arms.

"I guess I have to find him myself." I ignored her and walked past her. "What a fucking bitch." I heard her say but I couldn't care less. I walked to the kitchen, where Valerius was working.

"Working on vacation?" I say, bringing his attention to me.

"No, I'm not working. You slept for a long time, considering you have an appointment."

He closes his laptop.

"What time is it?"

"1:30."

"Oh my, if I didn't get up sooner-"

"You would've been late like always."

Valerius rolls his eyes, and I shove him.

"Come on, let's wait outside!" I squeal.

"You're excited about a picture of the baby's head?"

I glare at him. "It's not only that idiot! We'll see if it's a girl or a boy and if we have twins!"

Valerius sighs. "Ok."

We go outside and talk and mainly teasing each other till Kandi's car came into the drive-thru

. "Hi guys, are you ready?" She asks.

Valerius looks at me. "Yes, Thanks for coming. Valerius will be joining us if that's ok."

Valerius sneers. "It should be ok. I'm the father."

Kandi just smiles and leads us to the car. The drive was awkward, and Valerius was very vocal about his feeling of annoyance towards Kandi. Kandi was very vocal on how much older she is and the level of respect that Valerius should give, and it was just like being tightly in between two fiery pits.

Finally, we get to the clinic, and Kandi has a short conversation with the receptionist, and we're led to a room and told to wait.

"What do you think the gender is?" I ask Valerius.

"We'll find out." He says, looking at his work phone.

I snatch it away from him and turn it off. "Stop it. We're about to find out our baby's gender, and you're working?!"

"I'm just trying to take my mind off it until the doctor comes." He takes the phone back. "Plus, I want to have a gender reveal party. It was fun when we did it a couple of years ago for someone. I forgot we have too many people here."

I open my mouth to speak, but Kandi comes in. "I'm going to do an ultrasound on you. Unfortunately, the doctor called in sick."

Valerius snorts. "No, we'll wait."

I shake my head. "I don't want to wait, Valerius. So Kandi, do the ultrasound."

Kandi nods and Valerius sighs in frustration. Without warning, Kandi puts the cold gel on my stomach and moves the ultrasound. "We're doing a gender reveal, so keep the gender to yourself for right now." I say, grinning ear to ear at Valerius, and he smirks.

"Oh my!" Kandi says the sound of a heartbeat follows.

"What, Kandi?!" Valerius and I look deep into her soul.

She laughs. "Calm down. It's just. I see two babies in here, along with both of their heartbeats."

We look at the screen, and as Kandi said, they're two heads. Valerius smiles, and I feel tears well up. My babies are beautiful, even in black and white, and it's the first time I've seen a genuine smile on Valerius's face.

"They're beautiful." I sob.

How did I miss this? I wish I went to appointments sooner. Valerius kisses my cheek.

"I can see their genders, and I'll have it in an envelope for you guys!"

"Ok, Thanks." I sniffle.

Kandi smiles and walks out. "Valerius, you haven't said a word."

I wipe the gel off my belly and sit up.

"Thank you," Valerius says. "If I were you, I would've had an abortion as soon as I figure out my baby daddy is Valerius Moreno, the manwhore, or you probably would've kept the baby and taken the money from the inheritance for the first grandchild, so thanks for treating me like a normal human being and making me father." Valerius smiles sheepishly.

I smile. "You're so cute when you share your feelings!" I squeal, and he goes back to his usual self.

"Nevermind." He says, rolling his eyes. "You messed up the feeling."

I laugh as Valerius helps me off the bed. We head down to the lobby, where Kandi hands me an envelope.

"Here you go, your babies' gender."

"Thank you, Kandi."

She scratches her head. "I owe you," Kandi sighs. "I knew you were a busy person, and Shanna would ruin Valerius if I inseminated her, so I inseminated you thinking you were going to abort." My mouth opens wide. Valerius goes up to Kandi, probably going to murder her, but I pull him away.

"Kandi, I'm-."

I drag Valerius towards the door. "Um, Kandi, we'll talk later. Valerius is kinda angry right now."

"Sorry!" Kandi yells after us, and it seemed to make Valerius angrier.

"Valerius, please don't make a fool out of yourself and follow me outside."

"She-."

I shush him. "I know, I know, but look." I place his hand on my stomach. "We have our babies. She has her guilt. Kandi knows what she did, and to be honest. I think she helped you."

"How?" Valerius says coldly.

"Do you want to be here with Shanna?" I ask.

Valerius sighs and shakes his head.

"Good." I take him outside and catch a taxi.

Valerius sat quietly for the whole ride, and when we got home, he vanished somewhere in the house. I walked into the house, and to my unluckiness, Valerius's mom and stepmom were arguing.

"Cos'hai che non va?! Non vedi che Shanna è quella giusta per Valerius e non per il negro?!" (What's wrong with you?! Can't you see Shanna is the right one for Valerius and not the nigger?!) Marsilia's voice echoes around the house.

"Valerius fa ciò che lo rende felice, non ciò che rende felice te!" (Valerius does what makes him happy, not what makes you happy!) Mrs. Ricci sits on the couch, clearly irritated.

"È un bambino confuso." (He is a confused child.) Marsilia says, pacing around. "Minari non può tenere il bambino. Darà il bambino a Shanna. Mi assicureró." (Minari cannot keep the baby. She will give the baby to Shanna. I'll make sure of it.)

As soon as I hear my name, I panic, but Mrs. Ricci gets up and jabs a finger in Marsilia's face. "Sei un tale ipocrita. Sei la stessa puttana che ha diviso in due la mia famiglia e ora vuoi fare lo stesso nella vita di mio figlio. Minari terrà suo figlio. me ne assicurerò!" (You are such a hypocrite. You're the same whore who broke my family into two, and now you want to do the same in my son's life. Minari will keep her child. I will make sure of it.)

Mrs. Ricci made it clear that whatever they were talking about, she disagreed with. I try to walk away, but I crash into a vase, and they both look at me.

Mrs. Ricci comes up to me. "Minari?!"

"Mrs. Ricci! I'm so sorry, I-."

"Nonsense! It's just a vase." I sigh in relief. "And dear? You don't need to call me Mrs. Ricci. You're our daughter-in-law. Call me Esmeralda. My husband, as you know, is Fortunado, and Valerius's father is Lorenzo."

Mrs. Ricci, Esmeralda pats my head and walks past me, probably thanking me for being a distraction so she can get away. Marsilia's eyes turn into rage, but I'm not scared if we're not in the kitchen.

"What do you want, Marsilia?"

Marsilia smirks, she leaves, leaving me in confusion until she comes back with a hugs knife she could barely carry herself. "Let's see how well your baby takes this."

When I tell you, I didn't hesitate to scream. "VALERIUS!!!"

I run down the hallway looking for him, and I thought maybe Marsilia isn't going to chase after me, she's way too old for that, but boy was I wrong, she was destroying the floors and everything going after me. So I decided to fight back. I push tables and furniture so that I can get to Valerius on time. I tried to push a big couch in between us but my strength wasn't working, so I just ran. "VALERIUS! WHERE ARE YOU?!" I scream, pushing maids, and God knows what the other people there were. My barriers don't last long and she comes up to me laughing hysterically.

"Bye, bye Darkie. There can only be one gold digger in the family." Marsilia angles her arms and full-on swings at me. With nowhere to go, I crash into the window and run off the estate.

CHAPTER SEVEN

I run till my legs won't move anymore, then I realize I'm lost, scared, and pregnant. I sit down on the cold floor, crying. I reach for my phone, but it's not there. Where the hell was Valerius? Where was everyone?! It's getting way too late for me to be stranded on the side of the road. I think of the infamous Mafia and start panicking again. I fidget around with my hands and feel a panic attack coming. Is Valerius looking for me? Maybe he's not.

What if he doesn't care? What's wrong with me?! I put my head in my lap and cry hard, pulling on my hair. I can't even imagine my imaginary friends, it isn't working and nothing is calming me down.

I must have been there for hours because I was starting to hallucinate.

"Minari!" Someone yells my name.

Great, I'm hallucinating about Valerius. "Minari? What the hell?" I seem to panic even more hearing my name, and my surroundings look like stars. It's spinning, spinning until it crashes.

When I wake up, I'm on the couch. Why am I at the house? Wasn't I just on the street?

I look around in tears. "Valerius?" I say, my voice breaking in the process. Immediately, I hear footsteps coming in my direction.

"Minari." My heart calms when I see Valerius.

He buries my head in his chest. "What happened? Why did I find you on the side of the road, miles from here?!" Valerius hugs me tight.

"Marsilia," I start off shakily. "She chased me with a knife you'd probably only see in anime and was threatening me. That's why I ran instead and got lost." I cry at the memory.

Valerius sighs. "We're not going to have a gender reveal party here. Marsilia put the babies in danger." Valerius says.

I shake my head. "No, I don't want your mom and dad to miss it."

"They can fly to America."

"Then they'll bring Marsilia."

"Marsilia's in jail."

I pick my head and look at Valerius. "Is that why your parents aren't here?"

He nods. "They've been spamming and calling my phone trying to release Marsilia."

"You put her there?" I ask.

"Yea, she told me that you guys got into an argument, and you took the next plane to America, never to be seen again." Valerius sighs. "When she said never to be seen again, I thought she killed you, and the floor was badly damaged, so I put her in jail and went looking for you, well, looking for your body."

I laugh sheepishly. "You care about me?" I say starry-eyed.

Valerius's face went from relief to a grimace. "No, I care about the babies." He says, hugging me again.

"I was screaming for you Valerius, where were you? Where was everyone?"

Valerius caresses my hair softly. "My mother and father forced me to go baby clothes shopping and surprise you. Marsilia stayed home, and Fortunado didn't want to stay with her, so he silently went with us."

I coo at him. "Aww, baby shopping without knowing the genders."

"They know. I gave mom and dad the envelope. They bought girl, boy, and unisex clothes, so I don't know anything yet." Valerius rolls his eyes. "To answer your second question, the twins went on a week-long trip to get laid, and the maids and butlers are sworn to secrecy about what happened because they're scared of Marsilia."

I nod, feeling kind of happy again. "Minari, I'll make sure they put Marsilia on house arrest, so you don't have to-."

"I am not letting that stupid bitch ruin my pregnancy or my gender reveal party in fucking Italy!"

Valerius's face stays serious, but his eyes tell a different story. "Ok," He whispers as he kisses me.

The kiss seemed to get the twins excited and moving.

"Oh, Valerius, look!" I put his hand on my moving stomach, and he removes his hand like he doesn't want to ruin it.

"I don't want them to hate me."

"No, they won't hate you! Valerius where-."

My response pushes him away more. "Um, don't come upstairs. I'll be right back." He hurries upstairs while I laugh hysterically and follow him.

"Wait! Come back down, Valerius!" I say as I run up the stairs and enter the room.

I stop in my tracks to see Valerius frantically trying to clean up the candles and blue roses that decorate the room, along with the warm sexy as well as romantic scent. "Valerius," I breathe out.

He looks a little nervous. "You're probably too shaken to do anything, plus the babies are already moving." Valerius says, continuing to clean, but I stop him.

"Valerius, the flowers are so pretty. How could I reject this? How could the babies reject this?"

He chuckles, amusement playing in his eyes. "I know your favorite color is Green, but Blue roses were the closest I could get to green."

I blush, so hard my cheeks burn.

"How'd you know my favorite color?"

He flashes his white teeth. "I took your phone, and you had green aesthetics everywhere."

I cover my face in embarrassment.

Valerius scoffs. "I did all this mushy stuff just for you to cover your eyes?!"

He picks me up and puts me on the bed, and I laugh.

"I'm sorry, how can I make it up to you?" I say, caressing his face.

His eyes turn dark with lust. "You can make it up to me by...." He plants a trail of kisses on my neck.

"Ahh, I know. I can buy you your favorite flowers."

Valerius looks up at me. "What?"

I stifle my laugh.

"Oh, so you want to play?"

"I don't know, do I?"

Valerius flips me around, and I'm on my hands and knees.

"I'm going fuck you till the neighbors know my name."

I shudder in pleasure at his words. He slips into my entrance as I give a soft moan. Not satisfied with my cry, he thrusts into me harder and faster. I arched my back for more, writhing beneath him.

"Holy shit Valerius!" I cry, begging for more. He growls, thrusting in my ass. I'm dying of pleasure about to cum when he stops.

I turn around. "Why'd you stop?!"

He smirks. "Did I tell you to turn around?"

I look at him, confused.

"Minari, you are very inexperienced." He sighs, trying to stifle a laugh.

"That's not funny! I- I didn't exactly have men worthy of me." I say proudly.

Valerius scoffs and walks over to me, pushing me back onto the bed. "You're right," He mumbles, biting my ear. "You belong to me." I smile amusingly at his words.

"You know Alessandro said the same thing to me."

Valerius scoffs. "What'd you say?"

"I said, maybe I am." I laugh.

Valerius perks up. "Well, we need to change that." He looks at my stomach. "Sorry, not sorry, babies." Before I could laugh, Valerius slams into me, thrusting up and down so hard.

"OH, GOD!" I moan, arching my back and grabbing his shoulders.

"It's not the first time I've been called God."

"Shut up, Valerius!" Valerius smirks against my shoulders, ripping my dress in two. He starts to rub my nipple and suck the other while still pounding me. "Valerius! Valerius," I moan. I kiss him, preparing for my release.

Valerius catches on, and like the idiot he is, he tells me not to cum yet and goes farther and more robust, making me orgasm.

"Oh, Valerius!" I writhe beneath him, shaking like I have a seizure. He's about to pull out when I hold him back.

"Cum inside me."

He shrugs. "Already did."

I open my mouth, but Valerius shut me up with a kiss.

"Valerius." I say softly.

"I know, I'm that good." He boasts before putting jeans on.

"Fuck you." I say, sitting up under the covers.

"We just did," He says, smirking. "Don't want to tire a pregnant woman. You can have round two in your dreams."

"I can still have round two! It doesn't matter that I'm pregnant."

Valerius enters the bathroom. "Right..." He says, wanting to prove myself, I enter the bathroom butt naked and bring Valerius back to the bed for round two.

After we're done, we lay on the bed.

"We should blow out the candles before we sleep." I say.

Valerius snaps and the candles turn off.

"Don't need to," Valerius mumbles. He closes his eyes. "Don't pull me out of my sleep to have a third round."

I smile. "Wasn't planning to." I whisper.

Valerius puts his head on my bare chest like a child and sleeps, and I soon follow him.

It's not even done yet...just wait.