Beginning of Forever by Catherine Bybee EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Catherine Bybee
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“Happy birthday to you . . .”
Giovanni sat at the head of the table on the rooftop terrace of their
family home. The seat was normally reserved for his mother, but Mari
happily gave up her seat for the occasion.
The D’Angelos loved a good party, but birthdays were for family. And
Gio couldn’t have asked for more as his sang him “Happy Birthday.”
His niece, Franny, sat on his lap, something he ate up, knowing she was
growing out of the lap-sitting age. Soon there would be another baby in their
family. His older brother, Luca, and his wife, Brooke, were several weeks
away from welcoming the newest D’Angelo into the world. And even though
his sister, Chloe, and her husband, Dante, weren’t quite at the baby making
stage, Giovanni knew it was only a matter of time.
In addition to his immediate family, Dante’s mother, Rosa, was there, as
well as a close friend of the family, Salena.
The San Diego spring air had a snap of cold that lofted away with the
heat lamps on the terrace. The noise from the busy streets of Little Italy rose
four stories to where they celebrated. On the ground floor, the family
restaurant ran like the well-oiled machine that it was.
“You’re getting old, m’friend.” Dante patted Giovanni on the back once
Franny jumped off his lap to help his mother cut the cake.
“Wait for it . . . ,” Salena called from the other end of the table.
“You need to pick a wife!”
All eyes turned to the oldest D’Angelo, who didn’t even bother to look
up from the task of cake cutting as she gave her orders.
Salena, who seemed to be holding her breath, now sighed with a smile.
“There it is.” She winked at Gio. “How dare you be thirty and unmarried.”
“Shouldn’t that be ‘find a wife’?” Gio asked his mother.
“Find one, pick one.” Mari waved a hand in the air. “Call it whatever
you want.”
Gio laughed, his head more than a little fuzzy from the wine they’d
been drinking throughout dinner.
Salena laughed louder than all of them. “We can start setting Gio up on
blind dates, Mrs. D’Angelo.”
“There isn’t anyone in Little Italy that Gio hasn’t dated,” Chloe pointed
out.
“That’s not true,” Gio defended himself.
“You exaggerate, Chloe. The high school senior class is completely
untouched,” Dante teased.
Gio motioned to Luca. “Help me out here.”
“There will be a whole mess of freshmen coming into the city by
midsummer.” Luca leaned back, placed his hand over Brooke’s as everyone
at the table took a jab at the birthday boy.
There was no point in taking offense to his family’s well-natured
ribbing. He was the last of them to remain single, and now that Chloe and
Dante’s formal wedding had passed, the focus fell on Gio.
“Whatever happened to all that talk about settling down and having a
dozen kids?” Brooke asked, reminding him of a conversation he had with her
when they first met.
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