Santo might be in his father's arm, meeting with several persons but his baby eyes were looking for his mother. Then he finally spotted her. But he didn't like the view he got to see. Therefore he started to fuss over Enzo's arm, snapping Enzo's attention back to him,

"Mama, mama!" Pointing his small chubby finger at his mother's direction.

So Enzo had followed Santo's gaze and went back to Kate. When he was close enough, Santo stared crying hysterically. Enzo couldn't understand his son's suddenly crying nor did Kate.

"Is you tummy aching, baby?" Asked Kate to his son.

But Santo just kept shaking his head and gesturing Kate to give him a hug while he putting both of his chubby hands forward at Kate. Almost making him fall out of  Enzo's embrace. They both were confused at their son's behaviour.

Gianna then hurriedly came back to the scene and saw Santo was crying uncontrollably even though both of his parents were present. Then it clicked her. She took Maria out of  Kate's lap and Enzo put Santo back to his mother. Instantly Santo stopped crying, holding Kate tightly, no intention of ever letting go.

"I see! Little Santo was upset to see Maria at his mother's lap"

At explained a lot to the little devil's parents and they broke out into laughing

"What will you do when your mother will hold your little baby brother or sister all the time, huh Santo?!" Gianna kept teasing Santo.

But Santo paid no attention to her, while the parents of the little devil, blushed at the thought.

Enzo was shaking his head in disbelief, then he spotted a certain person. Taking his leave to the ladies, he went to greet his special guests.

Then almost simultaneously, Leona came running towards the ladies and rumbled something in Italian which Kate couldn't understand, so she said sheepishly ,

"Can you repeat that again? Um maybe in English this time?

Taking another breath Leona said,

"Bitchy Stella had arrived with her father just now"

Kate was surprised. She hadn't expected to see her husband's ex-fiancé here. Heck! She didn't even know the guest list.

"Has she now?" Kate couldn't help but clenched her teeth.

"You know about her?" Asked a surprised Leona.

"Of course I have! My husband's ex finance and his brother's ex wife"

"No, they are still married. Stella just lives at her father's house now" corrected Gianna.

Suddenly Kate felt extremely insecure. Leona noticed that and said,

"Hey! Don't be sad. My brother is all yours. He has set his eyes only on you. Trust me I could tell", then Leona winked at her.

And Kate blushed at her comment.

Then Gianna started teasing too, "Yeah! And Leona here told me what happened on the other day!"

Kate blushed even more, and said,

"There's nothing like that as you both are imagining. Things are a bit rough at the moment. There's this tension between us and I just don't know what I should do"

"In that case leave Santo tonight with me and enjoy your time with your husband", Gianna suggested while winking at her.

"Eww! Sorella, teen alert", said Leona while covering her ears, making the old two women to laugh.

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Enzo was thrilled to see the Lucianos' had actually come to the party. He saw them right away, the moment they entered.

"Lorenzo, my son! It's good to see you again" Giovell Luciano started the conversation while he threw the arms onto him, giving him a manly hug. And continued.

"And also congratulations on your success. You have waited long enough"

Enzo could see the old man was giving him a fatherly affection even though he was his father's one of the newest formed enemies.

"Thanks for excepting the invitation. Hope to so see you another time for the later discussion. Today just enjoy the night." Enzo suggested to the old man.

Then all on a sudden a came behind his shoulder, causing him to look back. And Enzo was surprised to see Stella before him. Yes, he was utterly shocked. He had been expecting Giovell Luciano but not his daughter as well.

Stella was an attractive woman, there was no doubt about that and had the killer body anyone would die for. She was wearing a deep v neckline dress, giving everyone the half clear view of her nicely done breasts. But he didn't feel any attraction to such cleavage. If he had been in different situation, then maybe he would have... or not. All on a sudden he remembered the termination of her pregnancy and it clearly bothered him, even though he didn't want to show his displeasure. But it was impossible for him to do that. So he just slightly nodded his head at her direction, and asked the from Giovell then went other direction to greet his guests.

Anthony was satisfied with the crowd. It was going exactly perfect according to his plans. Once again his son, Lorenzo had made him proud. When almost most of the important guests had already arrived, he thought it's time. While raising a glass upward and silencing everyone with the noise of his champagne glass he made with a tap.

When Anthony got hold of the attention of his guests then he started greet them and finally he gave his long awaited speech. By the time he called Lorenzo's name, everyone cheered for him. Truly Lorenzo was the perfect leader for them.

Kate was witnessing her worst nightmare. She saw her husband had been the centre of attention of the the event for the night. Obviously when she spent the early hour observing her husband meeting and greeting the crowd, so she had assumed the event must be the welcoming party for Enzo. But heck! Her husband was taking over his father's empire and also most definitely planned to settled down here, at Naples. But her husband didn't bother to inform her beforehand. She was raging with fury that she wanted the champagne glass which she was holding in the hand,to break it on her husband's head.  She needed to get the hell out of that place.

Kate then stood on her feet and was about to head outside when she heard her name being called. Then suddenly Enzo was taking long strides towards her until they were mere inches apart. Taking her hands on his, Enzo proudly said,

"This is Katherine Rossi. My wife and the mother of my child"

Kate wanted to slap her husband so hard that her hands started to itch. Sensing her fury, Enzo bent down till his mouth reached her ear and whispered,

"Behave, cara. This is very important to me"

To others, it might be showing as the loving husband was kissing his wife's nape softly but actually the reality was, the husband was warning her to behave.

Gritting her teeth tightly she kept her mouth shut while her husband display her and their son as a trophy family. Later that the crowd came to her one by one to congratulate her.

Enzo didn't keep his promise to hold her by his side all evening. In fact, he left her with the crowd to interact with the strangers. Some were very polite and genuine. But the rest of the women came to her boasting, how they managed to get Enzo to fuck them in the past. Also cursed at her saying, when Enzo would get tired of her, he would throw her aside like a trash bin.

Kate tired her best to keep herself composed. Suddenly when her husband came, placing his cold hand behind her small naked back, she flinched at the touch.

"Everything's good?" Enzo whispered in her.

"I want to leave this instant. I can't go on with the charade" , Kate replied through her gritted teeth.

"Soon, cara" with that he left a soft kiss on her right side of the head and went back to the crowd.

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