Epilogue - Bay
Ten Years Later
" D addy! Daddy! Watch me!" Six-year-old Bella chases after her three older brothers as they do backflips off the dock at our secret spot on the lake.
"Be careful!" Jessa tries to stand, only to be hindered by baby number six getting ready to pop right out of her at any moment.
Damn, she looks sexy as hell in that tiny bikini that shows every inch of curves and baby bump. Sure, I'd prefer she were naked, but that's something we only do when we know we are alone at the lake, especially after the time Brooks and Junie caught us skinny dipping.
I wrap my arms around my beautiful wife and pull her back to my chest, "She's fine. She's brave and strong just like her mother." I kiss the top of her head and rest my hands under her belly, gently lifting to help relieve the pressure from her bladder.
"You're too good to me, husband." She sighs, letting her shoulders relax against me. "Just wait, in a few years, it will be more than a few backflips into the lake, Bella will be doing to cause trouble."
"Not if I have anything to say about it." I shudder at the thought of any of my daughters dating. "I glance at our four-year-old twin girls playing on the grass by the edge of the lake. "It's a good thing the next baby is a boy—it evens the odds."
"Even if it didn't, with all Bella's male cousins, no boy will ever be good enough to date her or her sisters. She might have to sign up to become a mail-order bride when she's old enough to find a husband."
"Bite your tongue, woman." I wrap my arms around her a little tighter. "Maybe I need to put something in your mouth so you’ll stop talking crazy."
Jessa tilts her head to the side, glancing back at me. "Promises, promises."
“No promises about it.” Bale and his wife are taking the kids out for pizza tonight.
"Bring it on... oh" Jessa's belly tightens then contracts. "Looks like I'll have to take a rain check; your son is ready to join the world."
"Kids, code needy baby, greedy baby!" I yell the code phrase the kids and I came up with for when it was time for Jessa to go to the hospital and have the baby.
"Really, that's the code phrase you guys picked?" I can almost hear Jessa's eyes rolling.
"What? It was either that or baby shar…" Jessa spins faster than a woman in her condition should and quickly covers my mouth with her hand.
“Nope. Don't even think about it. I'm not going to have that song in my head while I'm in labor.”
I place my lips softly on her palm before wrapping my hand around her wrist and moving her arm, "I love you, Jessa."
"I love you too, Bay." She leans forward and kisses my lips, then leans back and says, "Now let's get this baby out of me."
-The End-
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