Chapter 443. The Don Agrees

Ria

She was sitting in the living room with Claude when the message came from her Pappa.

‘Bring the baby and come here.’

That was all. Just that terse and clipped message.

She turned to Claude who was moodily studying his phone as he sat, legs hefted up on the table, a stance he would be skinned for verbally if Mumma caught him doing that. But he looked up quickly as she shot to her feet.

‘Claude, come with me,’ she said and as she dashed out of the room heading to the nursery, she called over her shoulder,

‘We are going to the Club with Rudi.’

He was beside her , thundering up the stairs with her as they rushed to organize the journey.

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The baby was sleeping but in a few minutes, Ria knew he would be up and would bring the house down with his clamoring for his feed. The little fellow might have been born ahead of his time but he made up for it by being louder than all her other siblings.

The nurses blun