by Eve Black
Diana watched in utter pride as the man she loved showed such gentle care and adoration to their children. She knew he would, though. Despite all he’d done in the past, and how he’d hurt her, he’d begun to make up for it in outstanding and imaginative ways. The first was to buy the Perk Me Up café so she could have as many mochas and chocolate croissants as she wanted—though her mochas had been decaf. The next was to buy them a fixer upper house in Jersey, close to her mom, so she would remodel and design the house however she wanted while also living close to her family. The house was nowhere near done, but once it was, it would be the perfect home for David, her, and their babies. Perhaps even more babies. Yeah, she was crazy.
She’d just endured twelve hours of labor and was now cradling her two treasures in her arms. One in a pink blanket, the other in blue. They were sleeping, their little mouths pursed in slumber. Before they’d drifted off to sleep after their first feedings (which she conquered like a goddamn champ) she and David took note of their eyes. Baby Benjamin Allen Brenner, named after her father, had dark eyes, which would probably lighten to gray like his father’s. Baby Meredith Anne, named after David’s mother, had light eyes, which David said he hoped would be as green as hers. They were both dark haired, which meant David’s genes won out there, but Diana didn’t mind. She loved that her children took after their father so much, it made her heart soar, especially when she watched David hold them for the first time, his face awash in awe and terror. And love.
This man…
Settling back into the bed, Diana sighed.
“I think it’s time for mummy to rest,” David murmured to Ben and Merry, taking each baby one a time and depositing them in their respective nursery bassinets. Diana hated losing their warmth and the weight of them against her, but she knew she would need to sleep if she planned to be coherent enough to feed them again in two hours.
“There now, goddess, you rest while I watch over our lovies,” David murmured, his deep voice making her blood sing. Even after pushing out two human beings, her body still responded to David. He was her crack cocaine.
He turned to gaze at the two bassinets and the treasures within them, a look of something deep and amazing on his face.
“What is it?” she asked, reaching out to place a hand on his arm.
He placed a hand over hers, turning back to her, grinning broadly.
“I am just…thankful. Grateful. I cannot believe how blessed I am,” he answered, the awe weighting his tone.
She smiled up at him, tears burning her eyes.
“I am grateful, too.”
“Who would have thought that something so unexpected as a chance meeting outside an elevator could lead to unending happiness?” he marveled, light filling his gray eyes, turning them to a glimmering silver.
“Who would have imagined that a single night of bliss with a sterile man would result in two unexpected babies?” she teased, her heart flying.
David chuckled softly, leaning down to capture her mouth. He kissed her, his love for her, burning into her lips. He broke the kiss, leaving her panting.
“Thank God for the unexpected, yeah?”
She grinned. “I think I love the unexpected.”
About the Author
Eve Black is a lover of all things sexy, naughty, dirty, filthy, and chocolate. Throw in some whiskey, strawberry wine, and Matthew Goode, and she’ll love you forever.
When Eve isn't writing, she is reading, and when she isn't reading, she's drinking tea and coloring in her adult coloring books.
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