Hers to Take(56)

"But Nash had us stop on this room," Kade offered.

"I did." Nash walked toward the room in question. "I was just telling Kira I think we should make it into two rooms instead of one."

"Why?" It was Axel who asked. "I thought the idea of the room was for when you had a cub one day."

Nash nodded.

"You can always add another room later if you expand your family."

Nash raised his eyebrows.

"Isn't that still the plan?"

He nodded.

"But that'll be awhile," Luke said and looked between them. "I mean, first you have to have one cub."

Nash nodded again and looked at Kira, who looked just as confused as her brothers. "Right," Nash said slowly. He watched Kira closely as he spoke. "And if that were to happen, I think everyone should be prepared for the possibility of twins."

"Twins?" Kade almost choked on the word, no doubt thinking of Ella.

"There are twins in the family, after all." Nash looked pointedly between Kira and Kade but his eyes rested on Kira, whose face had gone white.

She opened her mouth; her lips formed the word but no sound came out. Twins.

Nash nodded and went to her. His hands went straight to her stomach, which had swelled much faster than it should have. And then there was her scent. He was surprised the others couldn't sense it. Her hormones were so strong, it had changed her scent almost at once. He'd suspected that day that there was something different about her pregnancy, but as the days went on, the more positive he was.

"Nash?" Her voice was quiet. "Twins?"

He nodded. "I think so."

Tears flooded her eyes. Her emotions were always so close to the surface in the past weeks. "Oh my God. I can't even … I don't know … .oh my God. Twins." She laughed as the tears fell down her face. 

Nash didn't care that they were surrounded by her older brothers; at that moment, Kira was the only person in the world. Her and their unborn babies. He took her face in his hands and kissed her with all the love he felt for her and the lives she was carrying within her.

There were whoops of shock and surprise around them as her brothers put it all together and shouted out their celebrations. Somehow, in the next few minutes, the women arrived with bottles of champagne and sparkling apple juice. All together, outside of what was to be Kira and Nash's new family home, they toasted to love and life and family.

It wasn't the family Nash had expected, and the loss of his own still tugged at something deep inside, but that no longer mattered. Because his whole world, his entire future, was right there on Grizzly Ridge.



The End