Epilogue
Five Years Later
Harper entered the newly built swimming pool room. Enzo had it knocked down and rebuilt, and now as she looked toward the pool where he was paddling with their son, while their daughter was in his arms. She couldn’t help but smile.
Five years ago, Enzo had changed her life forever. He’d killed her family, and once that was done, he came home and asked her to marry him. For a short time after, Harper kept expecting the pain to swamp her, but nothing happened. She didn’t feel any pain. She felt nothing.
Her family had turned their back on her long ago.
Her father had only used her for his own personal gain.
The only things Bradley Taylor had been interested in were titles and money.
He tried to become part of the Villa Mafia.
In fact, he tried to become part of anything that would provide him wealth with ease.
As for her own place as Enzo Castelli’s wife, that hadn’t been easy.
She knew to many of the women, she was an outcast, a lowly cleaner, and when Enzo wasn’t around, they did treat her with disdain.
She wasn’t quite sure what happened, but one dinner party, the women began to open up to her, and in the past five years, she’d stopped being the outcast and became his wife.
She had a feeling Marcus Villa helped with that, as at one dinner party, he insisted on having her close and spent all night talking with her about everything.
Harper knew there was a close connection between Enzo and Marcus, but her husband had never told her what it was. Either way, it made her life easier being Enzo’s wife.
She knew some women would hate being nothing more than their husband’s wife, but Harper loved being his wife. She loved being the mother to his children, which was why she was heavily pregnant with his third child.
“Look, there’s Mommy,” Enzo said. There was a squeal, and she looked at Enzo Junior as he paddled closer to her.
In the last five years, Enzo had opened up to her, and even shown her pictures of his two previous children. When he was ready, she had provided him with a picture frame with a picture of all his children. She even promised to make sure their babies knew of his previous children.
She went with Enzo every month to tend to their gravestones, as well as those of his parents, and even his parents-in-law, but his previous wife was nowhere to be found.
Enzo climbed out of the pool, and their son did so too, running toward her and throwing his arms around her, hugging her. Her daughter, Henrietta, was also trying to get to her, and Harper laughed.
Both of her children and her husband pulled her in close for a hug.
She had taken a job expecting to hate her life, hoping for a freedom that had never come. Instead, she had found love, created her family, and had never been happier.
The End
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