Midnight x F.P.

𝚜𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚢

March 24th, 2023

Anastasia POV

I had been up for the last hour or so, Florence woke up before me and had prepared breakfast for us before she woke me up. I was honestly shocked, but then I remembered she probably woke up to drive Aurora into school.

"I will pick Aurora up after school", I tell her and she hummed a little as she was looking at her computer.

"Darling?", I call out and she looked at me with an exhausted smile.

"Sorry baby, I was reading over this email that is literally never ending and I am so tired that it's hard to put words to my brain", she says as she shut her laptop making me smile softly at her.

"Why don't you go back to sleep then darling?", I ask softly as I moved to sit beside her on the couch.

"I can't because then I won't fall asleep tonight", she says and I kissed the top of her head.

"You know there is many ways that I can help you with falling asleep?", I taunt and she looked up at me with a smirk.

"Oh is there now?", she taunts back as she moves to straddle my lap.

I gently rested my hands on her thighs as I traced little shapes with my thumb on her inner thigh. I smiled lovingly at her as she looked at me with a soft expression.

"But you probably don't need my help, you are a strong independant woman", I tell her with a smirk and she frowned at me.

"Baby, I could really go for a nap but I want you to hold me", she says and I nodded softly.

"I just need to make a quick call okay?", I tell her and she hummed a little as she moved.

"I'll be up in our bed...", she says before whispering, "naked".

I just smiled at her as she strutted out of the living room, letting her hips sway as she walked. I wanted to call Stefania to see if Lizzie and her were available this weekend, I want to surprise Florence with a top secret wedding before we leave for Italy for a month.

I listened for her to get to the top of the stairs before I pressed call and let it ring.

"Hello?", I hear Stefania greet and I laughed a little.

"Hey stranger", I greet back and she mocked me a little before asking, "What do I owe the pleasure of receiving a call from one of my favourite Brits?".

"Uh well I was curious on if Lizzie and you were busy this Saturday?", I ask and she laughed a little before saying, "I don't think so, but we do have a thing with my dad's side that I might push to Sunday".

"If you can, I really need your guys help with a surprise", I tell her and she went quiet as I replied back in Italian in case Florence came back down, "Voglio celebrare un matrimonio top secret questo sabato, io e Firenze vogliamo già sposarci. Ma non voglio renderlo un grosso problema, voglio solo che voi due e qualcuno che officiate.".
(I want to have a top secret wedding this Saturday, Florence and I already want to get married. But I don't want to make it a big deal, I just want you two and someone to officiate.)

"Yeah we can do that, just let me know the information. I will rely back to Elizabeth", she says before we said our quick goodbyes.

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Aurora POV

As soon as Mama picked me up from school, she had told me to find a dress for this Saturday. But she made sure to inform me countless times that Mommy cannot help or know what I am up to.