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The man who Helene had met was a shadow of his former self. Oh, he was still the pillar of strength he always was, he was still the leader among great men, but the hard edges had been smoothed—Atlee had seen to that. He was a man smitten with his princess and angel and it showed.
Wilson set a squirming Chloe in her lap. But before he pulled away he very quietly told her, “We’re having a boy.”
Another blessing in a room full of precious gifts.
“You’ll need to open a daycare center for all these hellions.”
Wilson’s gaze went to the crowded bakery. An unpracticed eye would think he was looking over the children who were running around.
Maverick Kent the ringleader—as per usual. The girls: Isabella Wright and Emily Keniston, chasing him while Slade Daley looked on. Remington was far too old to participate in the shenanigans. He stood by his pregnant Aunt Letty.
But Helene knew Wilson wasn’t watching the children. Nor was he paying attention to his teammates or the group of pregnant women.
He was searching for his princess. And when he found her the smile on his face could only be described as serene.
The look of a man who had survived hell and found peace.
As the party went on around her, the beauty of the day took hold.
My beautiful Lenny.
Just a whisper of a voice in her mind.
I’m almost ready, Clive.
I’ll be waiting, my love.
There was one thing Helene needed to do before she was ready.
One more gift to receive—a baby boy to welcome.
Then she’d be ready to reunite with her one and only.
* * *
Rhode and Brooklyn’s backyard. Nine years later.
“It’s a good thing Rhode and Brook had the foresight to buy a house with so much land,” I muttered to Wilson.
“This was all he ever wanted. His land, his family, a place for his friends to gather,” my husband returned.
I knew that was the truth, if everyone wasn’t at our house, we were here. Rhode and Brooklyn also had a beautiful cabin in the mountains. Over the years Wilson had taken us up there, but it wasn’t a place to host a party such as this; it was a peaceful getaway.
The kids loved it up there. So did Wilson; there was no cell reception which meant Chloe couldn’t spend all day texting on her phone. Not that she didn’t easily trade her phone for her dad’s attention, she was a total daddy’s girl. But now that she was eleven, Wilson knew she had boys interested in her and to him, her phone was the means in which they—in his words—attempted to corrupt his angel.
There were tables set for lunch but for now everyone was waiting for Remington, Brooklyn, and Rhode to come home so we could start the celebration.
“When’s Raiden gonna get here?” my son asked.
Letty and River’s second son, Raiden, Reese and Sadie’s son, Davis, and Micha were inseparable and had been since they were toddlers. The three boys had been born within weeks of each other. It had been a crazy month.
“Soon. Why aren’t you playing with Davis?”
“Because he’s mad at me because I said he couldn’t marry Raine because I am.”
Oh, boy.
Davis and Jane’s second daughter, Raine, was two months younger than the boys.
