Chapter 40 - 39

"Is that what you want to call me?" Asked Ermanno.

"Does anything steer downstairs when I call you Daddy?" Asked Rose biting her lower lip.

Ermanno smiled and said "you are a filthy little girl"

"I am only your little girl," said Rose and kissed his lips.

Ermanno held her head from back and deepened the kiss.

They broke the kiss and were panting still having there head together and closed eyes.

Rose opened her eyes and asked "you want to skip dinner?"

Ermanno opened his eyes and said "no. Mummy is going to be there. She came here yesterday. She must be waiting for me impatiently. I bet dad made her stay put or else she would have been here with us now."

"I would have loved for her to be here. I love her. Now how about you change, till then I'll pack these." said Rose.

"Okay" said Ermanno and went up the stairs to his room and changed to more casual clothes and soon they both were on their way to Arlo's mansion. They both entered the mansion and were welcomed by Sabrina hugging Ermanno and shedding tears.

"Fiore, you saw him few days back. He is the same. Stop crying love" said Elisio.

"I missed you" said Sabrina looking at Ermanno.

"I missed you too mummy" said Ermanno and kissed her forehead.

Sabrina then looked at Rose and left Ermanno and hugged Rose and told her how beautiful she looks.

"Thank you. And you look as lovely as always" said Rose to Sabrina and continued "I bought pies"

"Oh. I love sweets and love pies" said Sabrina and the helpers bought in the pies from the car. Arlo had his own place and office here in LA.

He would stay here a lot and some in New York.

Aria and Vincenzo, his children would stay in the mansion in New York with Sabrina when he would come to LA with Sabina.

To be honest all the kids grew up together in New York under Sabrina's supervision. That's how all the kids grew up calling Sabrina, mummy.

Elisio being possessive over Sabrina never minded the kids in his side of the mansion and with Sabrina.

"We would call Sabrina, the sweet teacher who everyone loved and Elisio the scary headmaster, who everyone was afraid of." Said Sabina and everyone laughed.

"Hello, beautiful people" said Aria and entered the sitting room with Vincenzo.

Vincenzo saw Rose and smiled wide and went close to her and hugged her tight and said "hey Rosie."

"Hi Vinci" said Rose and hugged him back.

They broke the hug and Aria hugged Rose and they exchanged pleasantries.

The help announced that the dinner was served and all went into the dinning area and were seated in their places.

There was a round table in the dinning area.

"We have two dinning areas. This is the smaller one with only 10 chairs. Arlo wanted this dinning room to be more intimate as it's rare that we use the dinning table here. It's usually me and Arlo here. And having dinner at a very large dinner table is depressing." Said Sabina.

"You stay here often?" Asked Rose.

"We are here and in New York. After the kids finished high school and left to college. Me and Arlo stay here and there. Arlo has always been here and I join him most of the time. Aria and Vincenzo grew up basically by Sabrina and the rest of the family" said Sabina.

"That's the beauty of being in a joint family. Kids start to appreciate family and have a wide variety of people with different thoughts to look up to and learn from. Basically the family itself becomes an institute for the child where he can learn a little from everyone." Said Rose.

"So true." Said Arlo and smiled at Rose and then looked at Ermanno and said "she is a keeper" Ermanno smiled at Arlo and then looked at Rose.

What made Ermanno confused was seeing Vincenzo smiling at Rose.

"You always wanted a large family. You liked ours and look now you are part of us" said Vincenzo looking at Rose with a smile.

Rose smiled back at Vincenzo.

"And how do you know she likes a large family?" Asked Ermanno to Vincenzo.

"Oh boy. You don't know" said Aria.

"Know what?" Asked Ermanno.

Aria looked at Rose and then at Vincenzo and at last at Ermanno and said "they were bf and gf"

"What?" Asked Ermanno and looked at Rose and Vincenzo and asked "you dated eachother?"

"We were never exclusive" said Rose.

"Ouch" said Vincenzo.

Rose looked at Vincenzo and said "that's what you said when I called you from England"

"Yes I did. But that time I didn't think you would come back and I had Estelle. She was beyond hot. I mean oh boy she was everything. And I didn't want to do the whole long distance thing. So I said we were not exclusive so that you could find someone else and enjoy life like I was" said Vincenzo.

"Wait... So he was the boyfriend?" Asked Ermanno.

"How am I the boyfriend?" Asked Vincenzo.

Rose looked at Vincenzo and said "you were the only boyfriend I ever had"

"Aw.. Rosie. Why didn't you find someone else? I mean after me and before Ermanno? Wait if you were not with anyone then you were.... Ohhh way to go bro" said  Vincenzo and put his fist up for Ermanno for fist bump but Ermanno had a hard expression on his face and said "f.u.c.k you vi. Why do you always have to go for my girls?"

"You always have the best girls" said Vincenzo.

"Now where have I heard that before?" Said Elisio and looked at Arlo.

"What? You had a buffet of hot girls. I only feasted at few" said Arlo.

Sabina looked at Arlo and Arlo said "that was way back. I don't want anyone but you now" and kissed her lips.