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Chapter 65

One of the perks of being a major contributor to the hospital was the ability to ask for things. He'd donated an entire wing to the building so they weren't going to tell him no. The mob boss had paged Alan and filled him in on the situation. Since Elizabeth was carrying his grandson he was only happy to help. What Sonny wanted was access to the boardroom. He was sitting at the head of the table when Jason walked in with Johnny behind him. Not five minutes later Lorenzo came in with Francis.

Sonny knew from both guards that the men had stopped by to check on Elizabeth and once again had words outside her hospital room. If this got physical Lorenzo wasn't going to come out alive. Elizabeth would forgive Jason a lot, but him killing her brother might be too much.

"Have a seat." Sonny instructed the men. "I spoke with Kelly. She said that the two of you are causing Elizabeth's blood pressure to spike. That places both her and my godson in danger. That is something I will not allow."

"You don't get to allow things were my sister is concerned." Lorenzo told Sonny.

"I do when you two are acting like children." Sonny shot back. "Business wise we are all on the same page. Personally I don't care if the two of you hate each other. Around Elizabeth you need to do better. Lorenzo what is your problem with Jason?" It was time to clear the air.

"He isn't good enough for Elisabetta." Lorenzo bluntly stated.

"You think I don't fucking know that?" Jason said sneering. "Everyday I look at her and I know that she deserves better. A husband who isn't in danger of getting gunned down in the street. A man she doesn't have to come to the police station to bail out. Cameron and this baby deserve a dad they can take to school on career day. I know that my family deserves better, but I love her and my sons. I would give my life for them. She thinks I'm enough and I am thankful for that every day."

Lorenzo looked surprised. He'd never heard Jason say that much at one time.

"Jason, why don't you like Lorenzo?" Sonny turned to his enforcer.

"He's an asshole." Jason answered.

Johnny coughed to cover his laugh.

"All her life Elizabeth has wanted her family to love her. You were here for six months knowing you were her brother and didn't say a word. What you did was basically stalk her until you decided you wanted her to know. She's loved you from the minute she found out. As far as I'm concerned you're in the same boat as I am. You are not worthy to be her brother. Maybe in fifty years I might change my mind."

"Here's what is going to happen." Sonny had given this some thought. "The two of you are going to play nice when Elizabeth is around. No glaring, no arguing and no yelling. Both of you say you love her but you are both hurting her. Grow up." Sonny already knew that when it came to business he was going to act as a go between until these two got it together.

"I can do that for Elizabeth." Jason immediately agreed. Pretending was not his strong suit but for his wife he would.

"I can also do that." Lorenzo agreed. "I have no desire to hurt her I just want to be included in her life."

Sonny just looked at the two men and wondered whose ass Elizabeth would have to kick first.

"When I asked you to include me in my sister's life this isn't what I meant." Lorenzo said eyeing up the boxes.

"I called you didn't I?" Jason said smirking.

"So, what do we have?" Francis asked wanting to move things along. He wasn't sure that the two men would actually be able to get along. It was similar to how everyone felt about him and Max. Not that he and the younger guard were friends, but they no longer glared at one another.

"Crib, dresser, changing table, glider, closet system and several bookshelves." Johnny answered helpfully.

Elizabeth's shower had been three days ago and now it was time to put together all the furniture. The room was painted and once they had everything assembled the petite brunette could come up and tell them where to place everything.

"The mural is amazing." Sonny was still blown away at just how talented she was. The walls were covered with smiling safari animals. It was colorful and vibrant. Once the baby was born Elizabeth had plans to do a mural on Morgan's wall.

"It took her forever to finish." Jason said opening his tool kit. "Let's get to it."

An hour later the room was filled with a bunch of very frustrated men. All except for Francis who was laughing at his friends. They had divided themselves into teams to tackle all the items. Francis took the three bookshelves. Sonny and Lorenzo were working on the glider. Johnny and Jason had the crib. Max and Milo had the changing table and Cody had the closet system.

"I have put together cars that were not this complicated. This is just insane." Johnny said in disgust. He and Jason weren't even close to being done.

"Who put together these instructions, they make no sense." Lorenzo said from his side of the room.

"Why are things for such a small person so hard?" Milo said shaking his head. It was just a changing table but it had what he swore were several hundred pieces.

"Done." Cody said as he stepped out of the walk in closet. "Who needs help?"

"Sonny and Lorenzo." Francis told him as he moved to help Johnny and Jason.

"Sonny, didn't you do this for Morgan?" Jason asked his partner. He prided himself on his problem solving skills. He was not going to be defeated by a piece of furniture.

Elizabeth appeared in the doorway. "How's it going? The shelves look great." Her friends had been very generous and she didn't have to go to the store to shop for anything. Downstairs she and Emily were washing all the clothes Jake had received. Unable to stand it any more she'd come upstairs to peek at how the room was coming along.

"Who put together Cam's crib?" Johnny asked her.

"I did. I put his whole nursery together. Why?" It had taken her two days, but she'd managed to get it done. "Do you need help?"

"No." Every man in the room said at the same time.

"Okay then. Lunch will be ready in thirty minutes. I pulled out some of the casseroles that Sonny sent over." Elizabeth said trying not to laugh. The guys were not going to admit they needed help.

"Call us when it's ready." Jason said coming over and giving his wife a kiss before sending her on her way. Once she was gone he turned to the room. "If she could do it by herself then all of us should be able to. Let's get moving."

"How's it going upstairs?" Emily asked taking clothes from the washer and putting them in the dryer.

"Badly." Elizabeth said giving into the urge to laugh. She'd stood outside the room for a few minutes before making her presence known. She was glad Cam was in school right now.

"Did you offer to help?" Emily asked her sister-in-law.

"Yes." Elizabeth said laughing harder. "They wouldn't admit they were having trouble. I think if we weren't here they'd call the store and have them send over the floor models."

"That would be cheating." Emily said laughing as well.

"I'm not due for another three weeks so we have time." Elizabeth said as the house phone rang. She grabbed it. "Okay. Dante's on his way up."

"I'll wait at the door." Emily checked her appearance in her compact before heading off to wait. When she came back with Dante all the lip gloss she had just applied was gone.

Elizabeth waited until he was upstairs before speaking. "Things are going well?"

"Yes they are. I asked him to move in with me." Emily knew that Dante was not going to ask out of respect for Jason. The young doctor was not going to let her brother stop her from getting what she wanted.

"Are you moving into his place or the Gatehouse?" Elizabeth was thrilled that things were working out. Emily deserved to be happy.

"Neither. We are going apartment hunting next week. I really do like his place but I need some walls between my bedroom and the rest of the world." Dante's loft was a little too open.

"That's because you are slob." Elizabeth said calling her best friend out.

"Yup." Emily didn't even bother to trying to deny it. "So is he. It's why we are so perfect together. He went with me to my screening." Emily admitted.

"Really?" Elizabeth was pleasantly surprised. "I thought you always went alone."

"I do, but he asked me to let him come with me and I said yes." Emily was a breast cancer survivor and every year she went in to be tested to make sure she was still in remission. She never let anyone go with her no matter how much everyone around her protested. "He handled it really well. The list of questions he had for the doctor was as long as my arm."

"He is a lawyer." Elizabeth pointed out.

"He was the first one I told that I was still healthy." Emily blushed a bit remembering their enthusiastic celebration.

"Now all you have to do is tell Jason you going to shack up with your boyfriend." Elizabeth would make sure to be out of the house for that conversation.

"I'll wait until the baby is born, he'll be so happy he won't care." Emily told her friend. When the oven beeped she grabbed the mitts.

Dante had gone upstairs and gotten thrown into the thick of things. He was assigned to work on the glider and Cody moved over to the changing station. The three men managed to get it put together but when Lorenzo sat in it the chair leaned to the left. Something wasn't right. "How many pages is this instruction booklet?" The young man asked.

"One hundred." Sonny said as they started taking the chair apart.

"For one chair? You could just repack all this, give it to charity and have the store send over the floor models." Dante suggested.

"Elizabeth put Cam's nursery together by herself." Francis offered up from his position by the crib. They were very slowly making progress.

"She's a woman." Was Dante's response.

"What does that mean?" Johnny asked the lawyer.

"I was raised by a single mother. There isn't anything my mom can't do. Fix the car, swap out a fuse box, sew a kick ass Halloween costume and coach little league. You name it my mom can do it. Liz was a single mom so the fact that she can do this without any of us is not surprising." Dante explained to all the guys. "Maybe you should get her up here and she can tell us what we are doing wrong. Otherwise you're kid will be twelve before his room is ready."

"She'll never let us live it down if we ask her for help." Johnny told Dante. "For the rest of our lives she will hold this over our heads."

Dante looked at Jason. "Do you want your kid to fall to the floor because you were too proud to ask for help?" Dante wasn't afraid to ask his mother or Emily for help if he needed it.

"We'll bring her up after lunch." Jason wasn't willing to take the risk that Elizabeth or the baby would get hurt because they put something together wrong. Just then they heard Emily call them down. Jason got up knowing that Johnny was right. Elizabeth was going to use this to tease them forever.

The scene with the baby furniture was inspired by my hubby. The man can build you a car with two paperclips but he couldn't put together the crib to save his life. To this day we still laugh about it. I think it was nerves. My hubby said the instructions made no sense.

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