Stefano Was this what it felt like to be truly happy? I had felt it before but not like this. Back then the threat of her leaving was always hanging over us. That wasn’t going to happen now. Lily was going to be mine. Mine forever. She wouldn’t just be Lily , by night fall she would be Mrs Lily Romano. My wife. And the very thought made me beyond happy. I would never take her granted again. Hell I would never take my eyes from her even if it meant staying up all night and watching her sleep like I had just done. “I love you Lil Bum.” I whispered into the predawn air. I had almost lost her so many times, either through attacks or accidents or our own headedness but laying there at her side I could do nothing but wonder how we had got through it. That had to speak to our love for

