My Husband Asked For A Second Wife (Serafina and Matteo) novel Chapter 29

Serafina

Walking down the aisle in a silk gown that costs more than most people’s cars while visibly pregnant with your ex-husband’s baby to marry his secret step-brother is definitely not how I imagined my second wedding would go.

But here we are.

The dress is perfection—cream silk that flows like water, cut to accommodate the small but definitely noticeable bump that’s been making my life interesting for the past few months. The veil is cathedral length because if you’re going to cause a scandal at your own wedding, you might as well look like an angel while doing it.

St. Patrick’s Cathedral is packed with every major family on the East Coast, which means I’m walking toward my future husband past about three hundred people who have opinions about my life choices. The whispers follow me like expensive perfume—some scandalized, some impressed, all desperately curious about how this particular soap opera episode ends.

Father’s arm is steady despite everything. He’s dying, we both know it, but he insisted on walking me down this aisle like the stubborn, magnificent bastard he’s always been.

“You sure about this, bambina?” he whispers as we make our slow procession toward the altar.

“Absolutely not. But I’m doing it anyway.”

His laugh is soft but genuine. “That’s my girl.”

Adrian’s waiting at the altar in a tuxedo that was definitely tailored by someone who charges by the thread. He looks like he stepped out of a magazine spread titled “Men Who Could Ruin Your Life in the Best Possible Way”—which, let’s be honest, is exactly what he did.

When he sees me, his hand actually trembles. Not the fake, performative kind of emotion you see at most weddings, but genuine holy-shit-I-can’t-believe-this-is-happening vulnerability. It’s the same expression he had when he refused the Verrelli fortune and gave it all to me instead.

The same expression he had three months ago when he told me he loved me despite the fact that I come with more baggage than a luxury airport.

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