I'm still into you. (Book 2)

Emily

As the weeks went by Domingo grew more agitated and worried, he was convinced we would miss something and not be able to look after little Emily properly. It took a lot of effort from both myself and close friends to convince him we had everything we could possible need ready and waiting and that if we had forgotten something it would be easy to just run out and get it.

He put all of his spare time into preparing the nursery and it looked amazing all we had to do now was wait for our little girl who was due any time now. I was just as excited as Domingo but I was a little worried that I wouldn’t cope, I had been feeling completely run down lately.

At first I thought I might be coming down with something but I didn’t get the flu or any other symptoms so I passed it off as stress over Domingo and the hours I had been putting in at work. Once the baby was here I was going to reduce my shifts slightly so hopefully I wouldn’t feel so run down, although the imminent lack of sleep might not help.

I tried to push it out my mind and focus on more important issues such as my family visiting. Once Emily was here they would all be flying to England to come and see her even Maria was making the trip to see her first grandchild.

The only people who were not making the trip was Theo and Alfie. Theo had called and given his apologies in advance saying he couldn’t face coming back to England even all these years later. Alfie would be staying behind to keep him company while everyone else was over here and I was glad he was.

There would be plenty of time to see Emily and I understood Theo’s reasoning for not wanting to come back to England. Living with the pain of losing both your parents and your brother in the process must be hard enough but to relive the whole ordeal by coming back to England would be too much for him.

I had heard from my mum that his brother Colin had been writing him letters, continuously trying to get him to visit him in prison so that he could explain. Theo was having none of it apparently and had even stopped opening the letters and instead just threw them away as soon as they arrived.

Theo always remained so brave in my opinion, I never saw him break down not even once and I could only put that down to the fact that Alfie had taken him under his wing. He had looked after my cousin and kept him smiling through the years, and made him happy and I know that my whole family will always be grateful to him.

Alfie wouldn’t want thank you’s he loved Theo but regardless one day I would have to thank him because when Theo came to us I was sure he would go off the rails. He was sarcastic and had an attitude problem but I understood why and never pulled him up on it. But because he found Alfie he stayed on the right path and he’s better than anyone could have imagined given his circumstances.

The rest of my family would be staying in a hotel close to our flat in London. I had put in for my paternity leave but I was only allowed the two weeks after that it would be up to Domingo to do most of the caring for Emily. I still feel slightly guilty but I reassure myself that Dom will be more than happy to spend his time coddling our daughter.

No doubt he and I will have to fight to see her once our mum’s arrive because I have never seen both women so excited for anything in my life. My mum keeps telling me she is going to spoil Emily and when I told her she couldn’t she said that your own kids are for setting the rules the grandkids are for spoiling rotten.