“That was then. This is now. Now, we’re together. Pax is here. Victoria and Alex are happy, and Hank is healthy. That’s what you should focus on.”
I took her hand, leading her to my room... our room. “Hank is a beautiful baby.”
“He is.”
“Do you want more kids?” I asked as I shut the door to my bedroom behind us.
“Do you?”
I arched a brow as I took her in my arms again. “Do you think I’m too old?”
“I don’t. But you might not want the late-night feedings and—”
“I want all of it. I’ve always wanted all of it with you.”
“Well, then...” She started to undress. “Do you want to start now?”
My dick was practically bursting through my slacks. The idea of implanting my seed, making life in her, was way more erotic than I’d have thought. Still.
“We can wait, if you'd like. You can get your business running.”
She finished undressing, standing before me, one sexy curve after another. Her long, blonde hair hung full and wavy around her shoulders. “Didn’t you hear? I can work from home.”
“Still—”
“Didn’t you just say that you found something to do besides work all the time? I have too, Henry. Does that mean I want to give up the idea of the business? No. But I think I can do both. I have done both... working and raising a child alone. Now I have help. There’s Knightly and Mrs. Tillis and Caroline, and I’d like to keep Marie with us too.”
“Absolutely. Whatever you want. It’s yours.”
“Then get undressed and make love to me, Henry.”
She didn’t have to tell me twice.
EPILOGUE
Samantha - One Year Later
“Happy birthday, Hank!”
The family stood around the table at Victoria and Alex’s home as Victoria set a cake in front of a one-year-old Hank. He reached out to grab the cake.
“We need to blow the candle out first, sweetie.” Victoria took his hand, and then she and Alex leaned over and blew out the single candle shaped into a number one. “Okay.” She released Hank’s hand, and he immediately grabbed a piece of cake.
“You’re not supposed to do that,” Pax said as he sat next to me.
“He’s just a baby. And it’s his first birthday, so he gets a little leeway.”
What a difference a year made. On this day last year, I was at my lowest, and then everything turned around when Henry showed up in the middle of the night. He’d let go of all his hang-ups and fears, loving me and Pax full-throttle from that moment on.
Admittedly, I was nervous about allowing him into my life again, but as I watched him love us so fully, I couldn’t help but do the same. A few weeks after he’d shown up on my doorstep, we were engaged. Having waited five years for an HEA, we married quickly and started working on giving Victoria and Pax another sibling right away. A month after we married, I learned I was pregnant again.
Henry was overjoyed to learn we were having a baby. “This is the first time I got someone pregnant on purpose.”
I hadn’t thought of that, but both Victoria and Pax hadn’t been planned. “You’re just too virile for your own good.”
“You think so?” He waggled his brows.
“I know so.” I gave him a sexy smile.