Evidence that I have already conceived your child.
It was an unutterably long silence.
Carlo was the first to react. That is not a strategy; that is a scandal waiting to break.
Giulia didn’t look at him. Her eyes stayed on Matteo.
Since it was only in his reaction that it counted.
And he wasn’t speaking.
He was watching her.
Carefully.
As though he was attempting to determine whether she meant it.
I have not said it twice, she said.
Matteo sighed, stroking his jaw with his hand. “You don’t even hesitate, do you?”
“No,” she replied. Since it is indecisiveness that brought you here.
Carlo scoffed. You say we should make a pregnancy out of a legitimacy scandal. And what do you know about what will happen to you when that goes wrong?
Giulia turned to him. You know what will become
