Xavier’s lips curved against her neck. “Best part of the whole evening.”
And somehow, Helena didn’t think he was bluffing.
Xavier’s appetite was ravenous that night. They made love twice more, and by the time Helena’s trembling from her last orgasm had ebbed, the sun was lightening the sky in the east.
Xavier lay placidly with his head on her stomach, gazing up at his wife with drowsy eyes. “So, now what?” He murmured in inquiry.
Helena graced him with a lazy smile. “What do you mean ‘now what’? That was the third time, I’m exhausted.”
“That’s not what I mean.” Xavier slid up the length of her body, pecking her lips before settling in the bed next to her. “Where does XTech go after this?” He folded his hands behind his head, staring up at the ceiling thoughtfully. “Where do we go?”
Helena shrugged. “Anywhere we like I suppose.” She turned to face Xavier, admiring his mussed hair and deliciously sculpted chest. “I’m sure you’ll come up with another winning idea in the next year or so, and the company will grow even further.”
“Oh, is that what you think?” He teased her softly, brushing dark hair back from her brow. “That I’m just a dispensary of amazing ideas that I can produce at will?”
“You’re certainly a dispensary of other amazing things.” Helena quipped, a moment before Xavier covered her mouth with a single finger.
“Hush.” He warned her lowly, his gaze shining with renewed lust. “Be careful what you wish for.”
Helena merely chuckled softy before her gaze turned contemplative. “You know, I can think of one thing we probably need to do pretty soon.”
“What’s that?” Xavier gazed down at her fondly, toying with the hem of the sheet at her bosom.
Helena took a deep breath, her heart beginning to pound. “Maybe move into a bigger house.”
For a moment, Xavier merely stared at her, and Helena waited with baited breath, anticipation winding her nerves taut.
All at once, realization dawned on Xavier’s face. His eyes lit up and his gaze slid from his wife’s face to her flat stomach and back again. “We’re…” He managed, before he tripped over his words. “You’re…I mean…” He pressed his hand against her belly, his expression awed. “We’re going to have another baby!”
Helena laughed in unadulterated joy at his enthusiasm. “Something like that.” She might as well let the whole story out. She remembered two weeks ago when she’d complained of back pain and nausea in the office and Susan had immediately presented her with a pregnancy test. Helena had been skeptical, but at least this time, she could admit to not keeping up on her birth control.
Sure enough, she was expecting. Not only that, but she was an astounding three months along and had barely begun to notice the physical changes in her body, despite being pregnant before. When Susan had offered to give her an ultrasound afterhours, they’d both been astounded at what had popped up on screen.
Slyly, the gray-eyed woman held up two slender fingers.
Xavier’s eyes widened to the size of saucers. “Twins.” He exhaled on a breath. Then again, on the edge of a laugh. “Twins!” He swept his wife against him, enveloping her in both his embrace and his undying love. “We’re going to have twins, honey!”
When he said it like that, Helena was even more excited. This time around, she would share every detail of her pregnancy with her husband. He would be there to support her, to laugh with her, and to cry with her. He would watch their children grow inside her, and introduce them to Isaiah in an affection-filled voice.
And it would be amazing.
In that moment, Helena realized that she thought not of her mother, not of all that had happened to her or of all the hardships that she and Xavier had endured, but of their bright future together. Of a house full of children, and a heart full of hope that could never be taken from her again.
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