Rival Attractions & Innocent Secretary

She had thought about it long and hard and she thought about it again.

‘No,’ Emma admitted, because sometimes it still hurt. ‘Do you want to name her after yours?’

‘No,’ Luca said. He had forgiven Mia, and he was happy to see her with Leo, but, well, it was all too new and too much just yet. He didn’t even know what to do with his own surname, let alone pass on his mother’s first name too!

‘Aurora,’ Emma said.

‘Aurora?’ Luca played with the word in his mind and liked it. ‘It means dawn…’

‘And new beginnings,’ Emma said, gazing from her infant to her husband. They would follow their own course now. This precious clean slate they had been given deserved the very best they could give her, and that’s what she would get.

A new beginning.

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