Those words that I’d said to him all those months ago when he’d left. Words that hadn’t been repeated until now.
I grinned. “Good.”
“Now what?” he asked, breath still coming out unevenly.
“Now we go talk to my dad. Because I want to see what’s in that black box about as badly as I wanted you home.”
He pressed a kiss into the middle of my chest. “Let’s go. But I want to stop at one other place first.”
CHAPTER 26
Don’t trust children. They’re here to replace us.
-Text from Belle to Bruno
BRUNO
Twins.
Fucking. Twins.
I’d just seen them both, live, on the computer screen that Zach had rolled into the room for me.
He’d gotten it from the pool house where all the medical equipment was held, and the large group watched along with me while Zach found the two heartbeats beating a mile a minute inside of my soon-to-be wife.
I was sitting on the couch, Belle’s head in my lap, and staring at the screen with a feeling of awe filling my chest.
There were two babies.
Holy shit.
Two babies that were mine.
“Both are very healthy looking,” Zach announced as he pressed a button and printed a photo out of one of our children’s asses.
“Thanks.” Belle rolled her eyes when Zach gave it to her.
“You’re welcome.” He grinned.
Then he started to flip off switches and the computer monitor died.
He tossed me a rag, and I caught it in midair and cleaned Belle’s belly off.
“Babies for everyone!” Six half-clapped as she tried to do so around the child in her arms.
Lynn and Six’s children had been born while I was on the inside.
While I was sad that it’d happened that way, I couldn’t deny the outcome.
The world was a safer place for that baby.
That baby who reached for Belle the moment that Belle was within reach.
My heart all but rocked in my chest at the sight of Belle reaching for Six’s son, pulling him in close, and tucking a kiss into the crook of his throat, causing the tiny baby to giggle.
I stood up and walked toward them, stopping closer to Six than I did Belle.
“You did good, kid,” I told her.