Hotshot Boss (Alphalicious Billionaires)
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Curtis crossed the two feet between them in a blink. All of a sudden, his hand was on her chin, tipping her face up to him. His eyes shone with genuine love and hope. The most unguarded emotion she’d ever seen there.
“Unfortunately? Unfortunately? I think I have something to wipe that word out of your vocabulary. At least the un part of it.”
“Oh really?” she asked breathlessly. “What’s that?”
The skin around Curtis’ eyes creased when he smiled. Her heart stopped completely before it kicked back into some thundering semblance of working order. He gave her that grin, that goofy, stupidly happy, heart-melting, mushy, amazing grin. Curtis James. Her Curtis. Her TFB. And then, when his face must have hurt from all that smiling, hurt as much as her heart did- in a good way- he bent his head and kissed the un part right out of her.
EPILOGUE
Curtis
There wasn’t exactly a tangible meter for it, but Curtis was pretty sure if there was, some sort of scale or way of measuring fatherhood, he might not actually be the worst one ever. In fact, his wife told him the exact opposite, weekly, just in case he forgot.
Three.
He never thought he’d have one kid, let alone three. Turned out, life or the universe, happy chance, hard work, love or maybe all of it, had other ideas. Thank freaking goodness for other ideas. Without other ideas, he never would have known the love of his wife. His amazing, kind, compassionate, talented, beautiful wife.
He always knew Lexi would be the best mother, but he had no idea. No idea until they got home with twins. Yeah. Twins. They’d been shocked as hell to find two heartbeats at their first checkup together, not one. Two. Two miracles. Two perfect miracles.
Lexi was the best. Her parents were the best. Even his parents came back to Seattle to help out. They were all freaking rock stars and somehow they got through that first difficult year. Apparently, they must have liked losing weeks of their life to screaming babies, running around like haggard chickens, and having zero time to shower or even process a thought, because, when the twins were two, they decided to do it all over again.
Nine months later, Izabella Jade was born. A wrinkly, one week overdue, red faced, screaming bundle of joy that her big brothers adored. They were so fascinated with their baby sister that for a whole week, the holes in the wall and the parade of broken everything actually stopped.
Curtis couldn’t exactly say he minded when it started back up again. Holes in the wall, spilled breakfast, lunch, and dinner, screaming, shouting, lack of sleep and broken crap was a small price to pay for all the happiness in the world.
“Your daddy once told your cousins that they belonged in a zoo.” Lexi was talking to one year old Izabella and their set of nearly four year old terrors, Jace and Bryce. “He said it and it was actually really funny and then he had to take them to the zoo.”
“I tried to feed them to the lions,” he joked, coming up behind Lexi and wrapping an arm around her waist. “So make sure you behave.”
“I want to live with the lions!” Jace screamed, fist punching the air, missing his brother’s face by an inch. They weren’t identical twins, but Bryce punched the air too, right after his brother. They had very similar mannerisms. They liked to stir each other into getting in trouble, at the very least.
“Yeah! Lions are cool!” Bryce agreed.
“Li-li-li-li,” Izabella babbled.
Lexi rolled her eyes.
“I don’t know why we’re going to the zoo if we live in one.” Curtis slipped on his shoes, ignoring the giant hole in the wall by the front closet. How the boys caused so much destruction was beyond him.
Lexi rolled her eyes again. “You’re the one who suggested it.”
He winked back. “Only because I thought we could leave a few of these monkeys there.”
“Thank goodness your sister is joining us. I could use the extra set of hands.”
“I can’t wait for them to start sports. That’s going to be a great use of energy.”
“They’re already in swimming, football, and gymnastics,” Lexi groaned. “What more is there?”
“I don’t know, but I’ll find it.” Curtis plucked his daughter from Lexi’s arms and planted a big kiss on both her cheeks. She screamed in delight and grabbed his face.
“Is four too young to sign them up for a job? Maybe they’d like to work at the zoo,” Lexi offered.
“I want to work there!” Bryce yelled.
“Me too!”
“It’s settled then.” He shot his wife a private smile. While their friends and even his sister admitted they had their hands full, they wouldn’t change it for anything. Not the holes, not the spills, not the breaks, not the screams and shouts and the running and the yelling and the constant living life at full blast, high speed, burning the candle at both ends and then some.
He loved every single second of every single minute of every single hour of every single day. This was his life. It was his and Lexi’s life. It was the life they’d created, worked hard for, cried and laughed and loved and lived.
“When can we talk about having another?” he whispered in Lexi’s ear as she helped the boys out the front door.
“Are you crazy?” She didn’t bother turning around and the boys gave cheers of affirmation as they jumped down the steps and raced each other to the garage where the SUV was waiting. “If we have another, we’ll have to get a van. You hate vans.”
“What are you talking about? I love vans. I’ve always wanted one. I’ll give up the dream of an eight seater SUV in favor of a van if that’s what it takes.”
Lexi shot him a look before she stepped into the garage, which was echoing with the cheers and yells of two very eager, excited little boys. Izabella stirred in his arms. He glanced down at her chubby cheeked, blue eyed, babyface.
“I love you.” He nudged her nose with his and she let out another toddler cry of delight. He turned his face to the side and grinned at his wife, who was, he could tell because he absolutely knew her better than anyone in the world, melting inside. “And I love you.”
“Van,” she shot back. “It’s like a three-letter swear word.”
“I still love you.”
Lexi strolled over the SUV and opened the door. Getting the kids in was always a sport in and of itself. It didn’t stop her from pausing and giving him a private look, the ones she saved just for him. The look that told him no matter how crazy it got, no matter how hard and hairy and wild, she was in it for life. Just like he was.
I love you, she mouthed back wordlessly before she called Jace and Bryce’s names to load them in first. She was going to be a scruffy, wrinkled, out of sorts mess long before they got to the zoo. He knew it. She knew it. He knew he’d fare no better. The boys probably wouldn’t either. They’d be lucky to all get there in one piece, minus spilled snacks, the kids trying to take their clothes off for god knew what reason, shoes misplaced, meltdowns… the list went on and on.
He freaking loved that list.
So did Lexi.
That day in the parking lot changed everything. It was their fresh beginning. They stood together that day and never looked back. Bumps, growing pains, tears, trials, it didn’t matter. Because there were laughter and joy, smiles and tender little hearts. The entire world thought he had everything when really, he’d had nothing. Nothing that mattered. His family was his everything. They were his whole world. They were his real trust fund, as Lexi liked to lovingly say.
He’d never been prouder to be a TFB, as she jokingly still liked to call him in her texts, emails, and sometimes even out loud. He had all the money in the world, but he was never happy until he had love. Love, the real currency. The only currency that meant anything. It overflowed his heart and life… it turned out that all the pieces he’d doubted and feared for so long fit perfectly. Yeah. Life was pretty darn amazing after all.
The End
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