Chapter 64

"And this is Juliet, my baby girl. She's a spunky one," Marianna said with a smile. "She travels a lot. She never spends more than a few months to a year in any place. Right now she's backpacking through Europe for the third time with her new boyfriend. And from there she said they plan to settle down for a year somewhere in Australia," Marianna said, rolling her eyes. "I love her to death, but I told her to settle down and find a husband. I'm not getting any younger...and speaking of that, do you want babies?" Marianna asked.

Veronica almost choked on her coffee. "Um, I would like to have children some day. I'm not sure--"

"—how many do you want?" Marianna interrupted.

"Oh, well I'm an only child, so I guess one."

"What?! One! No, Nic's Italian...he's not going to do just 'one'. Nope. You need four or five to have a good size family, you know," Marianna said.

"Well, I don't think Nic wants kids in his line of work," Veronica said.

"Oh, tush, he'l