It had been three weeks since Maya had officially become Battalion Chief, and tonight was the evening Ross had planned for the changes within the brigade.
As planned, the blonde was in the bathroom putting on her Class A. She was tying her tie when Carina appeared in a long black dress that reached below her knees, hugging her body.
Her hair was curly, she had big earrings, a necklace, she was wearing make up but not too much either.
Maya had stopped in mid-action, her hands still on the flaps of her tie, looking at her wife in the mirror.
Carina's eyes were downcast on her outfit. She looked up and saw her wife frozen in place. She turned her gaze and saw that she was looking at her through the mirror.
-"cosà?"
However, her wife didn't answer.
"Baby?"
Carina had approached her wife, ran her hand over her cheek and lifted her face so she could look at her.
"Are you okay, baby?"
- "you've never looked more beautiful."
- "really? Not even on our wedding day?"
- "sorry, I misspoke, you've never looked hotter."
- "do you like me, then?"
- "I need to concentrate on how to breathe. You look... You're perfect. Remember I had a heart attack a few months ago?"
- "Yes, I remember, and it was two."
- "I don't think you've ever put me in such tachycardia."
- "even at our wedding?"
- "I've been waiting a billion years for our wedding... I had it all planned. I was in tachycardia because you were the most beautiful woman in the world... You still are, but that dress..."
Carina had slid her hand from her cheek to her heart against the opening of her jacket, flat against her shirt. Indeed, she had rarely had such a tachycardia.
- "Do you need help with your tie?"
- "I think I'm even going to need some help getting around."
The Italian woman who was already on her heels had leaned forward, her hand still on her wife's heart and she had come to kiss her on the lips. Her heart had become even more excited.
- "you're sublime baby"
Maya had intensified the kiss and Carina had been able to feel through her lips, through her tongue, that she wanted her like never before.
"Tonight... It'll just be the two of us... And I intend to enjoy it all night long."
- "do we have to go?"
- "don't you want to show everyone the woman on your arm? ... Because I'd really like to boast that I'm married to you".
- "mamma Tac is crying" said Jordan as she reached the bathroom.
-"How does she recognize them?"
- "they're her sisters" replied Carina, taking Jordan in her arms.
-"Yes, but no one can tell who is who."
-"Giulietta is blonder than Vittoria."
- "no, but I can tell which one is whom"
- "then why don't you want her to tell who is who?"
- "I think that, apart from us and my mother, everyone gets them mixed up if they don't have their curb chain"
-"She knows who her sisters are, just like we do".
