Lo is a fucking trooper, and I don’t know how she has the strength to keep going, but she doesn’t complain much. She is just getting on with it. I will never feel worthy of this woman.
“Say hi to Mommy,” I tell Soren, and a loud wail rips from his lips. I slide my finger in his hand, silently fist pumping the air when his tiny fingers curl around mine. Fresh tears prick my eyes, and I’m barely holding it together.
Lo breathes in and out, gritting her teeth as she looks at our baby boy. “Is he okay?” she asks in between pants.
“He’s perfect,” I say just as the nurse arrives to take him away to be bathed. “He’s got a fine set of lungs anyway.” Wringing the cloth in the bowl of water by the bed, I dab at Lo’s brow, wiping beads of sweat away and brushing sticky strands of hair off her face.
“Just another few seconds and then one big push, sweetie,” the midwife says from between her legs.
I slide my arm around Lo’s back and hold her hand, inhaling and exhaling with her as she prepares to bear down.
“Now, Harlow,” the midwife commands, and Lo grits her teeth, panting and groaning as she delivers our daughter.
Piercing cries ring out as our daughter comes kicking and screaming into the world.
Lo slumps against me, and I press a fierce kiss to her temple while the nurse cleans our little girl and the midwife attends to my wife. “I love you,” I tell her. “I love you so much. You have made me the happiest man alive today.” I don’t hide my tears as I kiss and hold her.
“I love you too,” she says, crying happy tears and smiling as the nurse hands our daughter over. “Wow. She’s going to be blonde.” She smooths a finger gently over the blonde hair stuck to our daughter’s head.
“I wonder if she’ll have curls like Luna,” I muse, sniffing as powerful emotion sneaks up on me again.
The nurse returns our son, all clean and smelling like lavender baby bath, wrapped in a long-sleeved onesie under the soft blue blanket we brought with us. We coo over him while we wait for our daughter to be bathed and returned, and then I go out to get the others.
Our family bursts into the room, and the noise levels elevate a few decibels as Rora squeals in excitement. Caz has to wrangle her into his arms to stop her from lunging at her new brother and sister. Luna snuggles with Lo, smiling as she holds her new sister in both their arms, while I cradle my son in my arms, showing him off to Bishop.
“See that,” I tell our eldest son, speaking loudly so the whole room hears. “That’s evidence of super, super, super sperm.” I knocked our woman up with two kids. Two babies, motherfuckers. None of those assholes managed that.
“Saintly!” Lo shrieks.
I smirk, slanting a smug look in Galen, Caz, and Theo’s direction. “Admit it, motherfuckers,” I add, uncaring about cussing. There is no way to protect our kids from cussing in our household. “I’m the fucking bomb.” I puff out my chest, my heart swelling with joy.
“We’re never going to hear the end of this,” Galen mutters, but he’s grinning. He slaps me on the shoulder. “I’m happy for you, man.”
“He looks just like Lo,” Caz says, leaning in to coo at our new son. “Thank fuck.”
“Our new daughter is the spitting image of her daddy,” Lo adds, gazing adoringly at the tiny little princess in her arms. “So, suck it up, Caz,” she teases.
“Yeah, Poppa Bear,” Rora says, jutting out her lower lip. “Suck it up!”
Laughter surrounds us, and as I cast my gaze over my family, I offer up thanks to whoever graced us with these two new miracles, promising I will never let them or any of our kids down.
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VALENTINE’S BONUS SCENE
Theo
“Poppa Bear,” Rora semi-whispers, tugging on Caz’s leg as we hover outside the master bedroom. “Why do we have to wait out here?” Her lower lip juts out, and she pins her bio dad with doe eyes that usually get her everything she wants.
“Because they want to sex on Mom first, stupid,” Bishop replies before Caz can get a word in.
My eyes pop wide, Caz chuckles, and Saint fights a grin.
