Alpha’s Baby(87)

Dressed in an expensive business suit, Terry stood by Stefan, off to the side and just behind Evelyn’s shoulder. He’d opted not to hold the baby, and instead chose to view him from afar.

Terry, I thought, was having a harder time accepting it than my mother was, but at least he was here. It showed that he at least cared in some fashion.

After a moment of cooing, my mother looked back to me. “I’m so glad you two are all right.” She shook her head, tears showing in her eyes. “My heart nearly stopped when the highway patrolmen showed up at my door.”

“I thought we were dead meat,” I said, explaining to them exactly what happened.

“Thank God,” my mother said when I was done. Tears came to her eyes, and emotion choked her voice as she put a comforting hand on my arm. “I’ll never desert you again, no matter what happens or what you do.”

I suppose I should have been bitter that it took this to bring her to her senses, but I wasn’t. I was just filled with happiness that me, Stefan, and the baby were okay and that my parents were here.

“Thank you, Mom,” I said, nearly choking on my tears.

“Your grandmother has offered for you two to stay at the Livingston manor while you recover from your wounds,” Terry said, scratching at the collar of his suit. He seemed uncomfortable by the display of affection between me and my mother and was looking for a way to fill the silence. “She knows that you’re going to need a lot of help with the baby while you get back on your feet and wants to help out in any way she can. She said when we called her that she’d be here as soon as she got into town.”

It should be you guys offering this, I thought. And not her.

But then again, our parents were going through a divorce. Apparently, despite their best efforts, things hadn’t been that civil, and the house wasn’t a place that was good for a baby right now. That, I could at least understand.

The news had hit me hard, but I couldn’t let it get in the way of things. Not with Rylan and not with Stefan, and I promised myself that I wouldn’t follow down the same path. I could see in Stefan’s eyes that he was thinking the same thing. Not us. We’re not going to make the same mistakes.

“That’s so sweet of her,” I replied with a glance at Stefan. “Just so like Grandma Em.”

Terry cleared his throat. “And I’d also like to tell you both that even though we are going through a divorce right now, we have decided that we're going to start being more civil . . . for your sake and the baby’s. If we would have lost you, we would have never forgiven ourselves. No matter what we’re going through, we will be there for you. Stefan, I can see it in your eyes, and you’re right, we dropped the ball on all of this. Evelyn, I’m sorry. For all of it, but most of all . . . I’m sorry that I wasn’t the man I promised you I would be.”

Stefan and I exchanged surprised glances. It must have taken a lot for Terry to say that.

But nobody seemed more surprised than Mom, who took her hand off my arm and looked like she was about to bite Terry’s head off . . . and then she let go of something herself. “Thank you, Terry. I hope . . . I know you’ll be a good grandfather, too. I’ve been so angry that I forgot about the good times as well. But, even if we can’t be married any longer, I’d like to still be friendly. For our children’s sake. And ours.”

Pushing my feelings aside, I beamed at them both to let him know I was extremely pleased with their efforts. “That’s all we can hope for.”

“Now,” Terry said, for the first time a half-smile coming to his face as he stepped forward to come over to the bed, “am I going to get to hold my grandson or what?”



Stefan

Four months later . . .





“That was amazing!” Bella cried, her limbs shuddering from the last of her explosive orgasm, her forehead covered in sweat.

Trembling, she dismounted me and rolled off my still tensed stomach, letting out a contented sigh.

“It was good, wasn’t it?” I asked her, playfully twitching my cock under the covers.

After the pregnancy and life-threatening car accident, I thought our sex life would diminish, but surprisingly, it got even more heated. I’m glad I’m a fast healer. My ribs were still aching the first time I woke up in the morning to find Bella hungrily slurping my cock, saying she needed her ‘morning protein supplement,’ as she started calling it.

Not one to turn down sex, I responded to her advances fiercely, giving her all she wanted and more. While my torn shoulder meant that I couldn’t hold her up in the shower, there was nothing wrong with my tongue, and Bella found out she had an inner cowgirl who loved to ride me for hours if we could. I lost count of how many times we had adventurous sex all over the humongous manor. She awakened a hunger in me that knew no bounds.