Billy smiled and shook his head.

"I don't think so. But mostly because of what these women do. Look at the paper again. One of them is in the FBN sure, and she's good at that. Another one is a madame at a cathouse in Boston, another is a drug runner, one of them is just labeled as "muscle" for God's sake. I really doubt that any of them are highly trained, highly skilled assassins. It's more likely that they are single women who never fit in to being a housewife. Sort of like some other women I know."

He pet her hair again and then reached his free hand down to rest on the swell of her belly.

"I'm sure that if they DO work for this crazy guy, all it's going to take is one good woman to set them to rights. And I've got more than one, I've got a few. So you tell me what to do about it and I'll do it, but if it were up to me? Well I think we could use some good ladies in this world. Even if they are a bit broken. After all, I've never met a man who isn't broken..." he reached down and took her hand, letting it slide up his chest to his own wounds he had taken many years ago, "...or scarred."

He picked his wife up onto his lap full then, just as they had been earlier, but with a different sort of passion. He kissed her neck then and buried his face into it. "If they are a problem, you know nothing will stand in my way. If they aren't you know I would never forgive myself for hurting them. We will figure that out together, but we can't worry about it. Mattaranzi is gone, and they worked for him, they've said so themselves. So even if they are answering to Francesco, he was going through Mattaranzi, which means they have no orders right now, and no man to give them orders either. That's something we can provide."

As he spoke into her neck she melted into him, her muscles relaxing, her heart finding a steady pace and then it happened.  Aurora snatched up Billy's hand and put it on the place she felt the flutter.  "Wait... I know I felt her."  she rubbed her stomach urging the child and then, it happened again.

She smiled brightly at her husband, "She's okay!"  She laughed.  "The baby's okay."  She hugged Billy as tight as she could ever remember hugging him.

"You're right... of course.  I'm just... so much happened.  I don't even remember a time when I felt in control, we're finally setting things to right.  Putting our family in order.  Stabilizing things.  I don't even know what that's going to feel like."   She kissed Billy on the lips for a long while.

"I can't wait to find out."  She kissed him again, smiling against his lips as the baby kicked a few more times.