Chapter 84- GOOD LIFE
'No! This cannot be true, I am the sole owner of all the Russo properties and I will not share it with anyone" Avena yelled, running down the stage with the intent of attacking Aurora but only for Leonardo to trip her into falling on the ground.
Within seconds, the church was swarmed with police officers, the main officer walked towards Avena lifting her up from the floor and cuffing her.
'Why are you cuffing me, what have I done?"
'Avena Russo, you are under arrest for the attempted murder of Rhea, please be quiet as anything you say shall be used against you in the court of law" The officer told her. Before they knew it, Avena was being dragged away kicking, screaming and her mother following right behind her, asking the officers to leave her daughter alone.
On the other hand, Ricardo was being arrested for the murder of Aurora's mother committed twenty one years ago. Leonardo's parent were arrested as well, for tampering with an investigation and cops had left as fast as they came.
'I do not mean to disturb but will there still be a wedding or should we cancel?" The priest's voice broke through. Leonardo smiled, they were so preoccupied with all that was happening around them that they had forgotten that there was a priest, patiently awaiting to lead the wedding.
Leonardo walked up to his wife and smiled at her, all the happiness filled Leonardo as he realized that it had taken him nearly three days to solve the differences between him and his wife.
'Do you still want to get married to me? I mean, after all this drama that was caused here" Aurora wrapped her hands around Leonardo's waist and looked at him passionately in the eyes.
'I would marry you even if there was an active earthquake happening" She placed a light kiss onto his lips.
'But you don't have a wedding dress?" Leonardo reminded her.
'No need to worry, I brought her dress along with me" Signora Meta pointed out.
'Who's going to walk me down the aisle?" Aurora asked as she sadly looked around the church.
'Of course I will walk my beautiful daughter down the aisle" Signor Giovanni offered.
'We do not have witnesses" Leonardo pointed out.
'I'm here!" Signora Meta pointed out.
'I am here too" It was Mr. Brown standing at the entrance in his grey suite, smiling at all of them. Leonardo respectfully walked towards the older man and hugged him.
'Thank you for revealing the truth to me, if were not for you then I would have been carrying the guilt of a crime I did not commit"
'No need to thank me, you are a good young man and you deserve it. Now run along, you do not want to keep a good woman waiting" The day had finally arrived, he was finally about to marry the woman of his dreams. Seeing Aurora walk down the aisle for the third time surely had its magic. Her father had walked her down the aisle and handed her to Leonardo. Luckily for him, when he lifted the veil, her eyes were not red and swollen from crying but her face was radiant and the smile on her face was infectious.
'Leonardo Romano, do you take you Avena… I mean do you take Aurora Florence Russo to be your loving and faithful wife?"
'I do"
'And you Aurora Florence Russo, take Leonardo Romano to be your loving and faithful husband?"
'I do"
'By the power vested in me by the church, I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride"
Leonardo looked into his wife's beautiful eyes and knew from that day onwards that she was always meant for him just as he was meant for her. And with one last action, Leonardo's lips touched onto Aurora's lips and just like that they knew that it was love.
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Epilogue
Seven years later
Aurora packed up the last of her belonging and lastly, she grabbed her car keys from the coffee table. Looking at her watch she only had ten minuets before she left for work.
'Ouch!' She heard someone screaming from the back of the house, her motherly instinct kicking in as she ran towards the direction of the screams. Only to find Leonardo sucking his thumb, looking at her and smiling. She rolled her eyes as she realized just what he was doing.
'My love we are not doing this again, not another false alarm" Aurora rolled her eyes at her husband.
'But I am injured" he playfully complained.
'Where? Because all I see if a grown man sucking his thumb and pretending to be injured" Aurora playfully reprimanded her husband. Leonardo walked up towards her, grabbed her and spun her around in his arms.
'You are absolutely right, I am not sick"
'I knew it"
'But what else can I do, my beautiful wife will be at work associating with strangers" he teased Aurora who laughed at her husband's exaggerations.
'Those people are my patients and I am their doctor, my job is to treat them because they are ill" Pretending to be shocked by his wife's explanation, Leonardo let her go.
'I did not know that you were a doctor" he pretended not to know as that was the case every day with her husband.
'Quit lying my love. I have to tend to my patients but see you in the afternoon my love"
'Wait" Leonardo told her. He walked close to his wife and looked her from head to toe, once again not believing how lucky he was to be blessed with an amazing woman such as his wife.
'What is it now?"
'You are so beautiful my love and I am the luckiest man alive to have a wife like you to support me. You are not just the best doctor but also the best mother to out twins, Luca and Lucia" he complimented his wife and placed a kiss on her lips.
Seven years ago both Leonardo and Aurora were shocked when the doctor had informed them in the labor room that there was a second baby. Luca, their son had been a bonus baby and had come only two minutes after his sister Lucia.
Both Leonardo were pleased that their family was growing beyond what the two of them had dreamed of. Now that their twins were six years old they wanted nothing but to extend their family further.
Both Leonardo and Aurora peaked their heads in their children's room, only to find that the two curly heads were still sleeping. They stepped out of the room and kissed each other more passionately than before.
'When you come back, we need to work on baby number three and four" he teased his wife.
'Of course we should" Aurora agreed and winked at her husband. Feeling blessed that her dreams had finally come true. She had a father, a wonderful husband and amazing children and if she could not keep the secret any longer, she would announce to her husband that she was already pregnant with baby number three and four.
The end