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She opened her eyes for moment to see they’d pulled chairs up. “Good, don’t leave me.” They nodded and she closed her eyes. “Guess what else I learned? Your mother, Zack, put my name down as Mrs. Bear. I think I’m growing on her. “

They both chuckled and Sandy let herself fall asleep happy. Her men were with her.

Epilogue

Sandy screamed again and snarled at Adelea. “If that son of yours doesn’t get his arse in here now, you will be less one son tomorrow.”

She howled in pain and gripped Adelea’s hand who winced and yelled, “Zack, get here now. Zack!”

Zack and Jake both hesitantly walked in. Sandy screamed again, and they ran to her side.

“Mrs. Bear, you’re doing real well. I can see the first baby’s red hair.”

Sandy gripped her men’s hands and yelled as she panted, “I hate you two. You both did this—”

“We have the head.”

Adelea came back over as she panted. Then the nurse told her to give one big push. There was silence for a moment or two while she gripped her men’s hands, and then she heard a loud squeal.

“You have a beautiful baby girl.” The nurse pulled her gown down and placed the baby so she had skin to skin contact.

Her little girl stared up at her with Jake’s eyes and his nose. Sandy knew even without a test that she was Jake’s. She kissed her smooth forehead as another contraction started. A nurse took Jake’s little girl and she gritted out, “Jake, go with her.” He seemed torn, but she screamed and he nodded.

The contractions seemed more intense this time, and she was exhausted. The nurse finally said, “We have red hair.” Sandy panted and pushed until the baby was out. This baby cried straight away, and when they laid it on her chest, the nurse said, “Very clever, Sandy. Two beautiful, healthy girls.”

Sandy nodded and looked down into eyes that were a blue she’d seen many times before. This baby was a clone of Zack, just in female form.

She gave a strained smile to the nurse. “Test them both. I bet they don’t have the same father. This one here is Zack’s.”

Sandy closed her eyes as soon as Zack took their girl out of her arms.

The next time she awoke it was to two babies crying and daddies singing to them off key, trying to keep them quiet. She was the luckiest woman in the world. She winced as she sat up in her bed.

“Pass them to me. They’re hungry.”

Both men turned and had huge grins on their faces. Zack placed his baby on one side and Jake placed his on the other.

Jake kissed her. “You were right. Emily here is mine.” She raised her eyebrow at Jake.

Zack chuckled. “Yep, very rare they said, but Abby’s mine.”

“Oh, so I do all the work, and you two get to name them.”

They both shrugged, the Cheshire-cat grins never leaving their faces.

“You can name the next lot, we promise,” Jake said.

She kissed Emily’s head. “Your daddy is crazy if he thinks I’m having more of you.”

“Oh, you’ll forget the pain. All the women I’ve spoken to today have said you would.”

Sandy shot a glare at Zack and kissed Abby’s cheek. “Your daddy is loco if—”

She was interrupted by her brothers coming in arguing with Zack’s sister. “You say that now, but just give us a chance.”

“No, I’m through with humans, and just men in…” Gwen trailed off as she looked at the two little bundles nursing in Sandy’s arms.

Sandy’s brothers both groaned, told her they’d come back after the babies finished, and went to wait outside.

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