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  “Eu te amo, querida,” he whispered.

  “I love you, too.”

  Epilogue

  Sidney walked out to the courtyard where her mother stood watch over the children running around under the sprinkler. They’d sold the apartment and moved into a two-story house in Leblon so the children would have space to run around and play. Her eldest, Alana, chased the two-year-old triplets around and around in a circle, the four of them giggling and without a care in the world.

  It was hard to believe that at one point she hadn’t been sure if the triplets would survive. After expensive fertility treatments, she’d finally become pregnant. But complications had arisen and the triplets had been born prematurely, none of them weighing more than two pounds apiece. After weeks of vigilance in the hospital where she’d barely slept or eaten, Rodrigo had finally dragged her away and insisted she get proper rest and take care of herself so she’d be at 100 percent when they did come home.

  When they were finally released, she’d slept in the nursery, worried they would stop breathing in the middle of the night or that something would happen and she wouldn’t be there to save her little miracles.

  It took a long time, but she was finally able to accept that they would be fine, and Rodrigo had been patient with her. The doctors confirmed with each follow-up visit that the children were hitting each development milestone.

  Rodrigo came up from behind and slipped his arm around her waist, pulling her close and out of her thoughts. “I think they are afraid of her. What do you think?”

  “I think you’re right,” Sidney agreed.

  It was a warm summer day, and Agnes had flown in to avoid the winter cold in New York and spend time with her grandchildren.

  “Do you think we’ll ever be able to convince her to move here?” Rodrigo asked.

  Right then, his father came out the back door. “There she is,” he said softly. Gualtiero completely ignored his son and daughter-in-law and walked toward Agnes and the playing children. He stopped beside her, and she looked up at him in surprise. She patted her hair and laughed at something he said.

  “I’m not one hundred percent certain,” Sidney said, “but I have a feeling we might be able to convince her.”

  Rodrigo chuckled and squeezed her tighter.

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