Beautiful Revenge (A Good Wife #1) - Sienna Blake Page 0,75
fidgeting with his shirt.
Dimitri’s frown deepens as he glances between Javier and Emily, now standing side by side in front of us. “Why are you here?”
“Um, so,” Emily starts, “there’s something that we, that is to say, Javier and I, need to tell you…”
There’s a heavy pause.
“Well, go on,” Dimitri says, his voice growing hard.
Emily glances over to Javier. He nods to her and she turns back to us. “I know this will probably come as a shock to you. It came as a shock to us too. What I mean to say is, we didn’t mean for it to happen it just—”
“Emily, honey,” I say, “spit it out.”
“Javier and I are in love,” tumbles out of her mouth.
There’s a moment’s pause.
I look over to Dimitri. He’s already looking at me.
We both burst out laughing.
Poor Emily and Javier just stand there looking at each other. “W-What’s so funny?” Emily asks.
I wipe the tears from my eyes. “You sweet girl. You looked so scared.”
“And you, Javier,” Dimitri says with a chuckle, “you looked like you were going to piss yourself.”
“What?” Emily is still staring at us both.
“They knew,” Javier says, the light flicking on visibly behind his eyes.
“What?”
Javier glares at Dimitri and me. “You knew and you didn’t tell us? You let us agonize over telling you for weeks?”
“When it was so funny to let you both squirm?” Dimitri says.
“To watch you both tiptoe around when you thought you were being so discreet and clever?” I add.
“You’re not…mad?” Javier asks.
Dimitri and I protest all at once.
“Emily is like a sister to me,” I say, “if anyone deserves her, it’s you.”
“And Javier, it’s about time someone made you a happy man,” Dimitri says.
Javier and Emily look at each other. Emily gives him a shy look and reaches for his hand. “Now we don’t have to hide it anymore.” She turns to us, grinning. “I guess you won’t mind if we announce that…we’re engaged!”
I let out a small scream and Emily joins in. I fling myself at her, wrapping my arms around her neck. This is how I should feel when my very best friend gets engaged. This time she’s getting engaged to the right man.
Dimitri and Javier clasp hands. “Congrats, mate. Looks like I’m breaking out the good scotch tonight.”
Once I tear myself away from Emily, I congratulate Javier with a hug too.
We break open a champagne bottle and that bottle of scotch, soda water for me. The four of us sit close and talk and laugh.
I let out a squeal suddenly, almost spilling my drink into Dimitri’s lap.
“What’s wrong?” Dimi says, his hand on me instantly.
I’m too damn excited to speak. I grab his hand and place it on my belly. The baby kicks again. This time it’s Dimitri who yelps. He leaps from his seat and begins to jump around the room like a lunatic. “We’ll put a cot here and a rocking chair beside it so you can rock our little lamb to sleep. Oh, and here…!” As Dimitri paints our future with his hands, Emily and Javier crowd around me, their twin hands on my belly. I catch the tiny look between them and I know that my little lamb may get a best friend soon enough.
Music blasts from the gramophone we brought back from St Petersburg. Dimitri has turned on a rocking swing number. He runs over to us and has the three of us up and moving and laughing in seconds.
As he swings me in his arms, the sound of Emily’s giggles in my ear as Javier dips her, I think, now—now—I can’t get any happier.
This is how to make a home. You take a house and, no matter what the furniture looks like, you fill the rooms with laughter and love.
The End
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Thank you for reading Beautiful Revenge. This book was a “unicorn” for me. I have never written a book so fast! Dimitri possessed me and I was left gripping on for dear life as his story poured from my fingers onto the keyboard. I hope you loved Dimitri and Alena’s story as much as I loved writing it!