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CHAPTER THIRTY THREE
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2026-03-30 21:40:49
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HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY ONE
"The best friend is the one who shows up, slightly disheveled, and tells you to stop hiding the best parts of yourself."SOFIAI feel immediately and completely out of my depth.Which is not how I expected to feel.I expected to feel excited. I am excited — somewhere underneath the other things I am definitely excited — but standing in a bridal boutique at seven months pregnant with a bump that precedes me into every room and a body that I am currently in complicated negotiations with, the excitement is sitting underneath something more uncertain.Vivian was supposed to be here.She texted at nine this morning — something came up, she would be there as soon as she could, she was so sorry, go ahead and start looking and she would be there before I made any decisions.Something came up.Which is not an explanation.But Vivian not explaining things is not new so I said fine and I came and I am here and I am trying.The staff are lovely.That is the thing that makes it complicated — they
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY
"The most dangerous thing about the wrong person is how right they make everything feel."VIVIANThe kitchen is quiet and calm, exactly what I needed to get awya from the noise and overwhelming exhaustion.Everyone is still in the sitting room going through venue photographs and arguing about chair arrangements and whether the ceremony should face the garden or face the house and I slipped away to get water because I needed thirty seconds of not being in a room where Nico Barbieri is sitting four feet away from me pretending to read something while I can feel his attention on me like a second temperature in the room.I fill a glass from the tap.I stand at the counter and drink it and breathe and give myself the small speech I give myself with increasing frequency these days which is that this arrangement is under control and I am under control and everything is fine.Then a hand slides around my waist from behind and I startle so hard water goes everywhere."Nico." I spin around. He
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE
"PLANNING A WEDDING WITH A SIX YEAR OLD IS NOT PLANNING A WEDDING. IT IS NEGOTIATING A PEACE TREATY WITH SOMEONE WHO HAS VERY STRONG OPINIONS AND NO INTENTION OF COMPROMISING."SOFIAI am not sure how the wedding planning comes up exactly, even though I have been married once, that marriage wasn’t something I had wanted to do and now that my dream of getting married to the only man I have ever loved every decision feels like it would take a lifetime to actually think about. One moment we are eating and the next Isabella is looking between us with the expression she gets when something has occurred to her and she has decided to pursue it immediately without waiting to see if it is an appropriate moment."When is the wedding," she says.Dante and I look at each other."We haven't decided yet," I tell her."Will there be flowers?” she says."Probably yes," I say."I should choose the flowers," she says. Very matter of fact. Like this is simply the logical conclusion and we are wasting ti
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT
"Some nights stay with you forever — not because of what happened in them, but because of how full they made you feel."The garden erupts the second Dante stands up and kisses me.Luca is first — practically launching himself across the space, pulling Dante into a hug that nearly knocks him off balance."FINALLY," he announces to everyone "Do you know how long I have been carrying this secret? I have been holding it for WEEKS. I am the worst secret keeper in this entire family and I did it. I did the impossible.""You told three different waiters here while we were setting up," Nico says, appearing behind him with far more composure but an expression that is unmistakably warm underneath it."That is not the same as telling Sofia," Luca says with dignity.I am still looking at the ring.I cannot stop looking at the ring.It catches the warm overhead lights every time I move my hand even slightly and something about that small movement of light keeps pulling my attention back to it like
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SEVEN
"Some moments are so full that the heart doesn't know whether to laugh or cry so it does both at once." SOFIA I cannot move. That is the first thing. I am standing in the middle of this garden with lights strung overhead and flowers everywhere and my daughter in front of me holding a chalkboard sign and I cannot move a single part of my body because everything has stopped working simultaneously. Four words. Mommy will you marry Daddy? In chalk. In careful letters. Held by small hands that I have kissed every night for six years. My eyes fill before I give them permission to. Isabella is watching my face with the focused attention she gives things that matter to her — reading me, checking me, waiting to see what I do next. She is so serious about her task. So committed to it. Both hands on the chalkboard, chin slightly up, giving me the full presentation. She practiced this. The thought arrives and does something to me. She practiced walking across this garden holding this si
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX
"The best moments are the ones you never saw coming."SOFIAIsabella talks the whole way home from school.This is standard. She has always been this way — the school day builds up inside her like pressure and the moment she sees me at the gate it all comes out in a rush. Today it is something about a project on the solar system and how Chiara got to be Jupiter and Isabella wanted to be Jupiter but she ended up being Saturn which she has decided is actually better because of the rings.I listen and nod and ask the right questions and carry her bag and walk beside her in the Italian afternoon and feel the particular fullness that this specific part of my day gives me now.School pickup.Such a small ordinary thing.Such an enormous thing to me.We get home and she has a snack and tells Dante about Saturn with the same intensity she told me and he listens with the same seriousness he gives everything she says, which she notices and absorbs and does not comment on but which I can see set
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER SEVENTY SEVEN
"SOMETIMES THE ONLY THING STANDING BETWEEN YOU AND FALLING APART COMPLETELY IS ONE PERSON WHO REFUSES TO LET YOU."SOFIAThe waiting room chair is the most uncomfortable thing I have ever sat in.I have been in it for forty minutes now and I feel every one of those minutes in my back, my shoulders,
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER SEVENTY THREE ~~
“SOAK MY HAND LIKE A GOOD GIRL.”SOFIA.Although Dante seemed to act like everything was okay, I knew he hated seeing my kiss Marco even if it was an accident. He even broke the glass in his hand. I really didn’t mean to drop the paper and kiss Marco and I don’t think he meant to do so either, but
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER SEVENTY TWO
ONE WEEK LATER."Jealousy is just love with nowhere to go and no way to breathe."DANTEI am in a good mood when I arrive.That should have been my first warning. Good moods have never lasted long in my life and by now I should know better than to trust them.The drive to Marco's parents' house tak
HIS BUTTERFLY (BETWEEN TWO DONS) CHAPTER SEVENTY ONE
"The cruelest thing about wanting a life that isn't yours is how clearly you can see exactly what it would look like."DANTEThe meeting runs forty minutes longer than it should.By the time I shake the last hand and walk the last Don to his car and watch the last black vehicle disappear down the e
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