Rebirth of the DiBianco Family

[15]We were made for each other

Dominic POV

Helena and Leo disappear into Camila's office as soon as we enter the house. Dante was going to accompany Olivia who needed to leave, Kate ordered them to take security in addition to taking one of the bulletproof cars. I couldn't speak, could barely keep smiling for the little ones. I was trying to control myself and it looked like Katherine was having the same problem. I was trying to put a plan together in my head but I thought I had at least a week before something happened. Now I might have to put it into practice sooner and improvise. I knew if something happened to me the girls would be okay, I liked to think they would. I get out of my own head when I feel some hands on me. Francesca had two albums in her hand and Milena was pulling me to make me sit on the carpet next to Katherine, before going to open cabinets and trunks with her sister. 

Kate seemed to be hanging on by a thread, controlling herself just because of the little ones. It was obvious that she adored children, there was no doubt about it. Just as there was no doubt that they were linked to Katherine. Francesca called her mother more than once and I didn't even care. I didn't call because I knew what she meant to me.

"Why don't you start with the photographs first." Katherine offers when they open another chest.

"¿Cuál es el primer álbum?" (Which one is the first album?) Francesca asks in spanish at her sister in what should be a low key.

"¿Cómo voy a saberlo?"  (How will I know?) Milena says

"Mamma aveva scritto."  (Mommy had written.) Francesca looks at her sister with her hands on her hips. Now speaking in Italian. She could see bits of Kate's influence, she was braver.

"Non sono mamma. Vai a chiederglielo." (I'm not a mom. Go ask her.)   Milena throws out the words while she takes a few more albums out of the trunk.

Katherine clears her throat before speaking.

"Cesca, love, come here, I'll help you." Katherine raises her hands towards the little one and Francesca comes running into her arms, sitting on her lap smiling at her while she gently moves her hair to the side. 

Kate had been avoiding my gaze ever since we arrived. I wanted to have her in my life I was sure of it. It hadn't taken five years of waiting to find her to see her disappear now again. Destroying me and the girls. I decide to distract her from whatever was consuming her.

"How did you manage to get them to speak several languages at the same time?" I ask with a smile while Milena deposits several mini albums next to me before running towards the trunk again. Katherine looks doubtfully in the direction of the miniatures before looking at me and smiling.

"I thought you already had that figured it out." It's all she offers with a smile. Of course I knew, with everyone speaking different languages and the way she wanted to include children in everything, of course I had that figured out. 

She points to one of the albums that Milena has in her hand."Mena, mi amor. I think that blue one is the first."

"Gracias (Thanks.)" says the little one, sitting like her sister, between my legs, I smile sideways at Katherine. That returns my smile hesitantly.

"So what do we have here?" I ask, accepting the album that Milena offers me. I open the first page and see pictures on the beach, with the description «first day»

"Ahh I almost forgot." Milena runs out and comes back with a plastic box that looked like a round aquarium. "It was the sand we brought and the shells that Cesca picked up, see?" She asks, turning the page pointing to the pictures of her sister picking up shells in a dress. It was clear that most of the photographs had been taken by them, the angle indicated that.