by Lucy Monroe
Eliza laughed and then groaned, her lovely face contorting in pain. "Just get over her and wipe my brow, Ironman."
She'd taken to calling him that because she said not only was he a superhero, but a superhero, executive billionaire.
Vin just shook his head and did as she instructed.
"You'd think you were the one having this baby," his mother admonished from Eliza's other side. "Pull yourself together son. Babies come with pain."
"But she has had the epidural."
His mother rolled her eyes. At him.
The doctor shook her head too, giving his mother a look that said, "Men!"
Then their baby was being born and he forgot all about his mother, the doctor, or anyone else in the room, but the incredible woman giving birth.
"It's a girl."
He cut the cord, all the while looking at the most beautiful face he had ever seen besides that of his wife, and fell deeply in love for the second time in his life. His daughter.
A child who would grow up with a loving mother and father, a child who would never have reason to question her place in her family or the world around her if he could help it.
He'd been very happy to see his uncle, Veeresh, develop a backbone with Trisanu. Apparently losing his only son, Dev, had given him the impetus needed to make sure his own grandson and the little prince's mother were treated with love and respect in the palace.
There was another child that, against the odds, would now grow up being certain of his place in the way denied to Vin.
New generations did not have to repeat the mistakes of the past.
"We're not done," Eliza told Vin.
He stared at her. And then looked at the doctor.
"The last ultrasound hinted at a second baby hiding behind the first. Their heartbeats were concurrent, but your wife is giving birth to twins."
He stared at Eliza.
"Surprise," she said with a tired smile before the ordeal of delivery started all over.
The second baby was a boy and Vin was not ashamed of the moisture in his eyes when he held them both in his arms thirty minutes later.
His gaze met Eliza's, "You have given me the world."
"That's fair, you made my world work."
"I love you, sonii."
"I love you, Rajvinder."
Now and forever.
Look for Lucy Monroe's other new contemporary romance release, HOT ALASKA NIGHTS and her latest Children of the Moon historical paranormal VIKING'S MOON.