Chapter 44

In the three months after that night, life seemed to move to a new metronome. Beyond the demands of family business, Lorenzo picked up a whole set of new habits. Every morning he got up half an hour earlier than usual to make coffee in the kitchen himself, because, as he put it, he might have to learn how to make baby food soon. He started reading books he never would have touched before, everything from parenting guides to child psychology, and the spine of that one called Starting from Zero had already gone soft with creases. He even had Luca track down an experienced nanny, interviewing candidates through five rounds two months ahead of time, and in the end he settled on a soft-spoken Sicilian woman in her sixties named Rosalind Norris.