Chapter 46
16 months later
‘Mum, can you please grab the cake? Brendan, are you ready with the camera?’ Josie barked orders as we all gathered around little Imogen at the family dinner table. Everyone was there—Mum, Dad, Nick, Sophia and the twins who, now three, were jumping up and down with excitement, their little party hats wobbling on their heads, Anthony and Julia with Greta, even Anna and Brad were there.
I stood in front of Leo who had his arms around me, his head resting on my shoulder, just how he did in Monopoli.
He’d had moved to Australia to be with me. He’d packed up his life, just as my parents had done, farewelled his family, and moved for love. For us. If it weren’t so hopelessly romantic, I would’ve thought it comical. He’d found a job using his patisserie skills in a
