Forever and always

Chapter thirty-four

Penelope and Luka were so sweet, they played around together the whole day. Little baby Lio was the cutest. He is only a few weeks old now, and absolutely adorable.

Today is the 25th and we are having an after Christmas dinner with Charles brothers and their mom. I'm so excited to spend the day with them.

I had just finished getting ready, my clothes were quite simple and I had just straightened my hair. "Ready to leave?" Charles asked as he had finished taking on his shoes. "Yup, ready" I smiled and then we walked out of the door, and drove towards Pascale's house.

Charles rang the doorbell and after a short wait the door opened. "Hi guys, how are you doing, you look very beautiful Olivia" Pascale said and pulled me into a hug right away. "Thank you Pascale. I'm doing good, and you" I said and smiled. "Never been better, now come on inside Arthur is already here" she said. "Sure mom, I missed you too" Charles laughed as he closed the door. "I missed you too Charles, it's good to see you both" she laughed and pulled her son into a hug as well.

We walked inside her beautiful house. "Hey Arth!" Charles said as we saw Arthur sitting on the couch alone with his phone. "Oh hey guys" he said and got up to greet us both. "When will Enzo be here?" Charles asked. "He'll be here soon. You know your brother, he's always a bit late! Now if you would excuse me I'll go to the kitchen and prepare the last bits" Pascale laughed and walked into the kitchen.

"I'll see if there's anything I can help with," I said and walked to the kitchen. While Charles sat down next to Arthur on the couch.

"Do you need help with anything?" I asked as I entered the kitchen which smelled amazing. "That would be lovely sweetie. Could you maybe cut some bread and put the cheeses on a board?" She asked and pointed to the kitchen island where everything was already pulled out of the fridge."Of course, no problem" I said and started to put the different kinds of cheese on a board, to make it pretty.

"Hello mother, hello Olivia" Lorenzo said as he entered the kitchen. "Hey Lorenzo" I said and smiled with my hands filled with cheese. "Hey Honey," Pascale said, who also had her hands full. He then left us alone, so we could be done with the food.

"Thanks for the help, my boys could really learn something from you there" she laughed. "Don't thank me, I love helping. And btw you raised three perfect boys" I smiled. "Yeah. They are the best" she said with a huge smile on her face. "They really are".. "I wish you could have met their father, he would have loved you" she smiled big. "I would have loved to meet him, Charles regularly tells me stories from his childhood. Seemed like he was a very good father" I said and gave Pascale a hug, which she seemed like she could need.

"He was the best father! and Olivia.. Thanks for taking good care of my boy, I haven't seen him this happy in years" she said and smiled after the hug. "Of course, I really love your son. He deserves the world" I said and smiled..

After our little talk, we carried the food into the dining room and sat the table. It looked delicious, there were lots of things: a cheeseboard, some traditional monegasque/ french appetizers and a few christmas related foods. I was so hungry that I felt like I could eat everything just by myself!.

We ate the food and talked about so many things while eating, it was so nice and I felt so welcome in their little family. I couldn't feel more blessed to have found such a good mother-in-law and brothers-in-law! Whenever we are together, we are always talking like I have known them my whole life.

Time flew by and before we knew it, it was late and it was time to head home. Lorenzo had already left about half an hour ago, and Arthur was also about to leave, so we did the same. It had been a great night. After we ate, we played some games which were like a quiz game with so many random questions. Pascale won and Charles came last, which he was a bit annoyed about..