The Body #4: Nico and Cosi

Chapter 6 (Cosi): It's Finally Over

Copyright © 2024 by GroveltoHEA

Year 2 through the overthrow

Taking Nico's advice, I managed to put aside my thoughts of getting pregnant for the next few years, despite my mother and Desti and other relatives asking me why I wasn't pregnant yet. My gynecologist assured me there was no reason physically that I couldn't get pregnant, she did tell me that there were other tests she could run that could pinpoint if there were other issues preventing me from getting pregnant.

Nico refused to let me be tested. On the few occasions I brought it up to Nico, he always took ahold of my face and looked me in the eye. 

"Costanza, I need you to trust me when I say I have no doubt you'll get pregnant when the time is right. Please. Please say you'll trust me on this, and stop worrying about it. I don't want you to go through testing and any unnecessary pain."

His dark brown eyes were so sweet and concerned that I could only nod. But still...that didn't address one of my worst nightmares, so I tried to communicate that to my husband.

"I just...I just...I just..."

I couldn't even get out the horrible fear. Nico and I were as close as a couple could be. Although he wasn't much of a talker, he told me he loved listening to me and I talked to him about everything, and he talked to me about what he could. Obviously, the work he did for the Body wasn't something we could discuss, but he told me some stories about himself when he was growing up, and he always was sweet with me and treated me like a queen.

Nico stroked my face. "You just what, Costanza?"

Unable to look at him when I brought up something that was none of my business, I whispered my greatest fear to him. "I just worry that someday, you'll bring home a pregnant mistress since I can't give you a child."

"No, never. Costanza, you are my fucking life. You're the reason I do what I'm doing. Next to loving you, all I want to do is protect you." 

He pressed his mouth to mine and gave me a kiss so intense it was like he was trying to transfer his thoughts and his words into me so I had no choice but to believe him. I wanted to believe him, but Body girls were brought up knowing that if you didn't provide children, your husband may get them elsewhere.

"You are the only woman in the world that I want, and I would never betray you like that. My body is yours, and only yours, and I would die before hurting you in that way."

"Nico, are you sure? I don't want to be blindsided ever."

"You have nothing to worry about, Costanza. My heart is yours and everything I have is yours."

A tear slipped down my face, and Nico swiped it away, then pulled me to his chest. 

"Costanza, I will stop at nothing to protect you from harm. Please remember that if you start worrying. I will never hurt you, and I'm never going to be with another woman. Children will come in time. I'm not worried about it, and I don't want you to worry about it either."

"I'll try not to."

"Listen to your husband, Costanza."

I knew he was teasing but I agreed to listen to my husband because if I'd sat down and listed all the qualities I wanted in a husband, Nico would have exceeded every quality on my list. He was attentive, sweet in his own rough way, listened to every word I said, was considerate, loving and never took a bad day at the office out on me. And over the years, he only became more wonderful. Sometimes, he was secretive, sometimes he stepped out to take a phone call on a second phone he had, but I didn't worry too much. Body men tended to be secretive about their work. They sometimes had to take calls at odd hours.