THE BILLIONAIRE'S DANCE(Billionaire Bachelors #2)(45)

He vowed he would never let anything bad ever happen again to anyone in his family. He couldn’t stand to feel so helpless.

Later that afternoon both families came in to check on Jessica, bringing in more flowers and balloons.

Her room looked like a floral shop from all the arrangements people dropped off wishing her better.

“We’re going to have another baby,” Alex excitedly stated to everyone in the room. He knew he should wait to tell everyone until Jessica was awake but he couldn’t help himself. He was too excited about it.

There was a moment of silence, before the room erupted in excited chatter. “Congratulations son,” Joseph nearly shouted before grabbing Alex up in a huge bear hug.

“That’s wonderful, just wonderful,” John added with tears in his eyes.

His brothers each gave him a hard hug and Amy kissed him on the cheek. They were equally as excited as he was.

“I don’t know if Jessica even knows yet but I couldn’t wait to tell everyone,” Alex stated, sheepishly.

“Alex.” His head whipped around, as he heard the quiet whisper of his name spoken. Jessica’s eyes were cracked open in confusion and she was looking right at him.

“Baby, it’s so good to see you awake.” He settled down into the chair next to his wife and took her hand into his.

“Wh…What happened?” she finally managed to croak out. Her throat felt like sandpaper. The rest of the room went completely silent.

“You were in a terrible car accident but everything’s fine now. You should be able to return home in a few days,” he said.

“I don’t remember. I was driving and then everything went black,” she said, sounding scared.

“You have nothing to worry about. The doctor said you’re going to be fine,” he reassured her.

“Jacob’s okay, right?” she asked. Her heart monitor started beating as she frantically looked around the room for her son.

“Jacob is fine. You need to relax, your heart rate is getting too high,” he said calmly and breathed a sigh of relief as the beeping slowed. “He’s home with Julia. She will be down here in about an hour with him,” he said and kissed her gently.

Jessica drank in Alex’s face. He looked like he was the one who had been in an accident. His eyes had dark circles and his face was unshaven. His clothes were in desperate need of changing. He’d never looked better to her.

“I’m sorry for the things I said. I do love you more than you could ever imagine. I was just scared.

You’ve held my heart for so long and I was afraid if I told you how I felt you’d somehow hold control over me. I should’ve realized sooner it did not matter. When I thought I could lose you I went out of my mind. Please forgive me for being so stupid,” he pled to her.

Neither of them noticed their families quietly slipping out of the room, giving them much needed privacy. They didn’t notice the happy looks between Joseph and John, the two meddling fathers.

“Of course I forgive you Alex. I love you so much. I wanted to come home the minute I left. I was already thinking I’d rather live with you, without love than without you,” she replied.

“So we’re going to be alright?” He asked her.

“We’re going to be more than alright. I think we can finally be a real family,” she said.

“Speaking of families,” he began, “how do you feel about giving Jacob a new brother or sister?” Jessica beamed at him. “Nothing would make me feel better than having a houseful of children running around, filling up the empty corners,” she beamed at him. “As soon as I get out of here, we’ll have to start working on that.”

Alex gave her a blinding smile. “I don’t mind practicing for baby number three but number two is already cooking,” he said.

Jessica looked at her husband in confusion for a few moments before she realized what he was saying.

“Are we…” she began, when he nodded his head. “We’re really pregnant?” she asked with hope.

Alex nodded his head. He was so overcome with emotions he couldn’t speak for a moment. He found it amusing he was the one telling her they were pregnant as it was normally the other way around.

“I can’t believe it,” she gasped. “How do you know?”

“They ran all kinds of tests to make sure you were alright and found you were twelve weeks along.

The baby’s fine. As a matter-of-fact, they are going to bring a monitor in this afternoon so we can have our first peak at the little one,” he said.

“I can’t believe I didn’t know I was pregnant. I just thought I had a touch of the flu. I guess even the flu can’t last that long,” she said feeling a little foolish.

“I should’ve noticed something was up myself. You have been sleeping a lot and hardly eating. We have to get you taken care of so you can properly take care of our baby,” he said and gently rubbed her belly, which had a small bump on it.

Jessica looked at his hand on her stomach and gave a small laugh, “I thought I was just putting on weight,” she said, turning a little pink.

“I would love you no matter what you looked like,” he said and she could see he really meant it.

Jessica was thrilled to be carrying another baby of Alex’s. “I never thought my life could be this perfect. I love you. Alex.”