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He was looking. Christ, he couldn't have looked away if someone had held a gun to his head.
Their daughter was making her displeasure known while Angelina gently dried her and covered her with a warm blanket. Lana laughed through her tears, whispering to the tiny bundle against her chest, and the sound of her voice seemed to settle Sadie.
Sid had never witnessed anything so fucking incredible in his entire life.
“Hey, Sadie,” Lana whispered, touching her daughter's cheek. “I'm your mommy.”
Sid felt his eyes burn. Shit. He'd made it through the whole damn delivery without losing his mind, and now a little girl who hadn't even been in the world five seconds was about to bring him to his knees.
“Sid?” Lana looked up at him, smiling through her tears. “Are you going to come say hello to your daughter?”
He leaned closer, his gaze never leaving Sadie's face. She was so tiny, with a little scrunched-up nose and a mouth that seemed determined to let everyone know she wasn't happy about being disturbed.
“Holy shit,” he whispered.
Lana laughed. “That's what you've got to say to your daughter?”
“I'm working on it.” Sid shook his head, unable to stop staring. “Give me a minute.”
He'd always been able to find something to say, usually something that pissed somebody off, but for the life of him, he couldn't come up with a single word that came close to describing what he was feeling. His daughter was here. She was healthy, Lana was smiling, and everything he'd spent months worrying about suddenly seemed a million miles away.
“She's beautiful,” he finally managed, his voice rough.
“I know.” Lana looked down at Sadie, her smile widening. “She's perfect.”
Sid leaned down and kissed his wife, letting his lips linger against hers before pulling back to look at their daughter again. He'd loved Lana for a long time, but watching her hold their little girl made him fall in love with her all over again.
Sadie suddenly let out an angry little squawk, her face scrunching up as she waved a tiny fist.
Sid blinked, then grinned.
“Well, there's no fucking doubt she's ours.” Sid snorted with a shake of his head.
As everyone else in the room rushed around, still taking care of Lana, Sid paid them no attention. He only had eyes for his girls.
“Sadie Lilith Sinclair,” he murmured, a smile spreading across his face. “You have no idea what you've gotten yourself into.”
"Sid, would you like to cut the cord?" Dawn asked, holding out a pair of scissors.
Glancing from Dawn to the scissors, then to Lana, who was nodding her head, he cleared his throat. "Yeah, I would."
Taking the scissors, he did something he never thought he would ever do. He cut the cord connecting his daughter to her mother, and for some reason, the simple act hit him harder than he expected.
“Congratulations, Dad.” Slade slapped him on the back after he handed the scissors to Dawn.
Dad.
That was the moment it really hit him. Jesus, he was somebody's dad.
CHAPTER 19
After making sure both mothers and their babies were doing well and everyone was settled, Dawn finally managed to sneak away to her office to give the new families some time alone. She couldn't remember ever being so exhausted in her life. She'd delivered plenty of babies over the years, but two in one night, under circumstances most doctors would never believe, had taken just about everything out of her. Falling into her chair, she dropped her head onto her desk with a groan, wishing she could stay right there and sleep for the next twelve hours.
There was a knock on her door.
“Closed,” She moaned.
When her office door opened, she slowly lifted her head off her desk.
