Antonio opened his eyes and looked over at Sadie, she was snuggled right up against him, and thought she looked extremely beautiful, and peaceful the way she was sleeping. While looking at her he thought of Harlow's letter, and what she expected out of him.

Resting his arm over her body, he leaned forward kissing her forehead. She smiled while her eyes were closed, and let out a happy moan. She puckered up her lips wanting him to kiss her, to which he wasn't going to deny and kissed them.

Upon opening her eyes, she saw Antonio's piercing blue eyes, sparkling back at her. "Morning." she says, with a morning crackle in her voice.

"Good morning." he says back, softly kissing her lips. She wrapped her arm around him and kissed him back, the kiss was so loving and passionate, that it got themselves revved up, and started rolling back and forth on the bed, kissing and moaning. Antonio stopped them from rolling around, and got on top of her, poking her with his erection. He thrusted his cock in her, and began making love to her. He quickly stopped when they heard Isabella outside the door.

"Momma!" Isabella yelled, knocking on the door, causing Antonio and Sadie to jump.

"Shit." Antonio groaned in disappointment, while moving off Sadie.

"What is it Hun?" she called out, as she sat up and covered herself up.

"Gabriella is in bed crying, and she won't stop."

"OK, I'll be right there, give me a minute."

Antonio looked over at Sadie, and sighed. "I can go check on her, you can just stay in bed." he slid out of bed, and realized that he had no clothes in the room while looking for them, and remembered they were outside. Sadie began to laugh when she watched him trying to figure out what to do.

"I have a couple robes hanging on the bathroom door." she giggled. "Put one of those on."

"You want me to put on one of your robes?" he asked. with widened eyes, and looking at her as if she were crazy.

"Well... what else are you going to do? Go upstairs naked? Or would you just like to wear that towel?" she asks, pointing over to the one laying on the ground.

Groaning, he walked over to the bathroom door and looked at his choices, a fluffy white robe or a silky hot pink robe. "You've got to be kidding me." he muttered under his breath, while he stood there staring at the robes.

He shook his head while grabbing the white one, putting that on. He walked out of the bathroom and Sadie busted out laughing "What's wrong with the pink one?" she asked while giggling.

"Very funny, at least I can hurry and make it up to my room, and throw some sweatpants on. This robe barely fits, and is just enough to cover my package if I held the robe together tightly." he says, trying to squeeze the bottom of the robe together, and peeking out the door, making sure Isabella wasn't still around.

He walked out, shutting the door while hearing Sadie laughing hysterically. She laid in bed thinking about her and Antonio, and what Harlow had written to them. As for Antonio asking for her to move into his room, she wouldn't mind it at all, but still felt weird about it. It was hard knowing that was the room he shared with Harlow. She would rather him move down in her room, or into another room. She knew she had to talk to him about it, and needed to let him know what her feelings were about the whole thing.

She put on her pink robe, threw her hair up into a bun, and walked upstairs. She got to the kitchen and could hear Gabriella still crying, wondering if she should go up there and help. She figured that she better wait and see if Antonio would ask for help.

Isabella walked over to Sadie, asking if she could have a bowl of cereal.

"Is Gabriella OK?" Sadie asked, feeling concerned.

"She misses mommy." she says, grabbing a step stool, and pushing it to the food pantry to look for cereal.

"Oh... I'm sure she does." Sadie grabbed a bowl and spoon, and placed it on the table, then grabbed the milk and set it on the table. Isabella found the cereal that she wanted and brought the box over to Sadie, wanting her to help pour it in her a bowl. Sadie spotted Antonio walking down the stairs with Gabriella in his arms, and her head resting on his shoulder. "Can you grab her a glass of water please?" Antonio asked Sadie.

"Is she OK?" Sadie whispered to him, handing him the glass of water.

He nodded his head and mouthed to her that she's fine. "I'll talk to you later about it; I have to get ready for work."

Sadie took Gabriella from Antonio, and sat with her on the couch. "Would you like to do anything special today?"

Gabriella turned and faced her, wiping the tears away from her eyes. "Can we get a puppy?" she asked.

Sadie looked at her surprised "You're probably going to have to ask your dad that... that's up to him."

She jumped off her lap and Isabella shoved her bowl away from her. She hopped off her chair, and both ran up the stairs yelling. "Daddy!"

He opened the door quickly thinking something was wrong, he was buttoning up his shirt when they ran up to him wrapping their arms around his legs.

"Can we get a puppy?" Gabriella asked.

"Oh... I don't know girls, that's a big responsibility."

"Please daddy!" Isabella begged.

Sadie walked up the stairs slowly, and over to the girls "Did you put them up to this?" Antonio questioned with a grin.

"No. Gabriella asked me if they could get a puppy, I told her that she had to ask you."

He looked down at the girls, unsure what to say. "I'm going to have to think about it, why don't you girls eat breakfast, and I'll talk with Sadie about it."

"OK." Gabriella sighed, sadly walking away from him.

Sadie followed the girls downstairs, and looked back at Antonio "I'll be right back."

Isabella grabbed her bowl, and started eating her cereal again while Sadie got Gabriella a bowl of cereal.

"Momma, you have to tell daddy that we can get a puppy." Gabriella says, as Sadie was walking up the stairs.

"Will see, I can't make any promises."

Sadie walked into the bathroom where Antonio was getting ready, trying to fix his tie. Sadie walked over to him, and helped him with his tie.

"What do you think about a puppy?" he asked her.

She shrugged her shoulders. "That's up to you, I don't think that they realize what kind of responsibility it is, but they are five years old and kids do like pets."

"Yeah... you're right, but you're the one that will have to deal with the puppy all day." he smirked.

She cupped his face and gave him a kiss. "If it makes the girls happy, it's fine with me, as long as you're OK with it."

"Good luck." he grinned and laughed. He pulled her to him, hugging and kissing her forehead. "Thank you."

"I better go check on them." she says, walking away.

"I'll be down in a minute."

Sadie walked up to the girls smiling, whispering to them. "You get to have a puppy." The girls got excited and screamed, and began running around the living room. They both ran over to Antonio hugging him when he came down the stairs.

******

While Antonio was at work, Sadie called numerous breeders that she had found online, as well as the humane society. She then took the girls out to see what was available. They first stopped at the store to get pet supplies, toys and food. On their last stop after looking at many puppies, the girls fell in love with a Maltipoo.

"Can we have two puppies?" Isabella asked as both girls were holding a puppy.

"No, you can have one, so you two pick together on which one you want." Sadie instructed.

They finally decided on a female puppy, and Gabriella wouldn't let her go. Sadie paid them the money, and was able to take the puppy home right away.

Once they got home, the girls immediately brought the puppy to their room and played with her, trying to figure out a name.

Sadie walked into the room with her phone and sat down next to them "Do you girls want to hold her and I'll take a picture to send to your daddy?"

"Yes!" They both said with excitement.

Sadie took a picture and sent it to Antonio's phone. At the time, Antonio was looking over his client's files when his phone made a noise. He picked his phone up from the desk and clicked on the message, smiling when he saw the picture.

Meet the newest family member, I (she) has no name yet. See you when you get home. -Sadie

******

The girls ran up to Antonio excitedly with the puppy, as he walked into the house. They were so proud and happy, that they wanted to show him right away.

"She doesn't have a name yet; can we name her after mommy?" Gabriella asked.

"Oh, I don't know about that, how about a different name?"

"Bella?" Gabriella asked.

"That sounds better." he tells her, taking the puppy from her to look at her. "How many did you go look at?" he asked Sadie, looking at the puppy.

"Eight of them, we drove all over the place, I was beginning to think that we weren't coming home with one. She was the last one that we looked at, from what I was told, they're supposed to be really good with kids, and are very loving."

"I'm sure she will be fine, but that dog is in trouble now with them girls." he laughed.

Later that night the girls had let the dog outside before they went to bed, while they were outside with the puppy, Antonio put the kennel in their room so the dog could sleep in their room, he then put the girls to bed, and the puppy into the kennel. "Now don't let her out, she's not potty trained yet, and we don't need any accidents in the house... OK?"

"OK." they said.

Antonio found Sadie cleaning up the dog toys that were spread all over the house. He walked behind her, and wrapped his arms around her tightly, while kissing the back of her neck, then whispered in her ear. "So, have you made your decision about moving in the room with me?"

"I thought about it, but I'm not sure if I feel comfortable with it."

"Why's that?" he asked, turning her around "I don't get it."

"Because, you shared that room with Harlow. It just seems weird and not right to me. I'd feel better if you would stay with me downstairs, I don't know."

"Well if you want to, and if it would make you feel any better, we can buy all new furniture and you could do the room differently, the way you would want it. I'd hate to switch rooms; the master bedroom has a fireplace, and a walkout to the deck."

She sighed, thinking. "I know, I guess we could always do that, and change it up a bit. Hopefully it would get a different feel. But as for tonight, I'm still sleeping downstairs."

"Sleep up there with me tonight... please? No sex... just cuddling, the girls have that puppy now, and I'm sure we're going to have to listen for it." he picked her up before she could even answer him, and carried her bridal style up the stairs.

"Just one night, give it a try... for me please." he says, setting her down on the bed.

"Since you said please and because of the dog, I will."

"I still have your robe in here." he says grinning, holding up her robe.

She laughed, grabbing it from him.

She stripped down to just her undergarments, and climbed into the bed, still feeling iffy about it. She was only doing it for him, wanting to make him happy. He climbed into the bed, pulling her on top of him.

"No sex I thought."

"Who said anything about sex? I wanted a kiss, that's all." He tucked her hair behind her ear for a kiss. Repeating what they were doing this morning, until they were interrupted.

Sadie snuggled up to him, and laid her head on his chest. "I've been thinking about this all day-..." he began saying.

"About me moving up here?" She interrupted.

"No... you didn't let me finish." he curled his finger under her chin, lifting her head, for her to look at him. "I was thinking about my feelings for you, and I don't think this... I know this..." He paused to kiss her, kissing her with love.

"I love you." he says kissing her again. Kissing her hard and demanding. "To be honest, I'm actually madly in love with you."