The Billionaire Wins the Game(48)

She stared at him, starting to feel a ray of hope. He was saying he loved her and maybe she really had jumped to conclusions. “Why would you think I would cheat on you? Making love to you is the best sex I have ever had in my life. It’s so much more. I can never get enough of you. Why in the world would I need to go to another woman when I have you to myself every night?” he asked with confusion.

“It makes more sense to me that you would want a woman like her. I’m not sophisticated, or gorgeous. You got trapped into being with me because of the baby. It just makes more sense than you actually being able to love me,” she broke off on a sob and could say no more.

Lucas lifted her chin up and placed his lips on hers, cherishing the feel of their soft touch. She immediately responded to him as she always did at his lightest touch. He pulled back before things could get out of hand, which was so easy with her, as he couldn’t get enough of his wife.

“Amy, I admit we didn’t start out the best way, but none of that matters anymore. All that matters now is how we feel about each other and how we feel about our child,” he said while running his hand over her stomach.

“I love you so much. I’m sorry I’ve been such a fool. I was afraid to give you my heart because you already own me in every other way. I would walk through fire for you. I would hunt you down to the edges of the universe. I can’t and won’t live without you. You and our child are my reason for survival. Without you both, there is no joy or passion in my life. There is no meaning,” he said.

She believed him. He loved her.

He loved her!

She’d never in her life felt such tremendous joy as at that moment, sitting on her husband’s lap with his arms wrapped tightly around her. She could see the love on his face and feel it in his body. She knew everything would be all right. She knew they were going to be the couple that beat all the odds.

“I love you so much Lucas. I think I have loved you from the very first time we met. I tried to fight it so hard, but there is no fighting a man like you. You are who I want to be with the rest of my life,” she purred.

Amy Threw her arms around her husband’s neck and kissed him with a passion that would keep them up for a very long time that night.

Epilogue

“Push, baby, push. You’re doing so great. I see her head,” Lucas mumbled in a terrified whisper.

“Arrrgggggg...” Amy grunted as she used her last remaining strength and gave a final push. She collapsed back against the bed and then heard the sweetest sound imaginable.

The first cry of her beautiful baby girl.

Suddenly the doctor was placing their child on top of her chest and she was looking into the scrunched up face of her daughter throwing her very first temper tantrum.

“She definitely has her daddy’s temperament,” Lucas laughed as he rubbed their daughter from head to toe making sure for himself that she was okay in every way. “I think she’s hungry and letting us all know,” he chuckled.


Even exhausted Amy looked from her husband to her baby girl and felt pride and happiness as her family was growing. She could see the love and pride shining in Lucas’s eyes and it was the most beautiful thing in the world.

“Jasmine would like to have her father hold her now,” Amy said to Lucas. He gently picked her up and held her closely to his chest. The tiny movement of her breathing was the most amazing feeling in the world. The night before, he’d been feeling her kick from the inside of Amy’s stomach. Now he was holding her in his arms.

The doctors quickly cleaned her up and then the three of them transferred rooms. They were there no more than a few minutes when there was a knock at the door.

“Can we come in?” said the subdued voice of her normally booming father-in-law.

“Come in, come in, Dad, meet your very first granddaughter, Jasmine Katherine Anderson,” Lucas said proudly.

Joseph gently took his granddaughter from his son and a tear streamed down his cheek. Things hadn’t turned out badly at all, he thought to himself. He was in a hospital, holding his brand new baby granddaughter and his son was happily married.

His son should be thanking his old father, but Joseph knew better than to ask for any praise for all he’d done to get those kids together. His beautiful granddaughter was all the thanks he needed.

“You two have done really well here,” Joseph said as he smiled from Amy to Lucas. “She’s the most beautiful baby I’ve ever seen in my life,” he continued on.

He reluctantly handed the baby girl to his Katherine and watched a glow come to her face as she sat in the rocker and held the precious gift to her chest and hummed her a lullaby. “We almost got a Christmas baby,” Joseph laughed. It was December twenty third. They all agreed that Jasmine was the perfect gift for the whole family.

“Guess we’ll have to work on giving Jasmine a little brother born on Christmas next year,” Lucas said as he looked at his wife hungrily. She was still the most beautiful thing in the world, even after the hard labor she’d endured.

“Now son, I sure want a ton of grand babies running around that empty old mansion, but you may not want to scare your wife off. It never is a good thing to talk about child number two, when she is still feeling the pain from the first one,” he winked at Amy.

“The pain’s already forgotten Dad. I love this baby girl more than anything in the world and want to make many siblings for her because I love your son so much and that love needs to be shared with the wonderful children I know we will make.” Joseph’s heart enlarged just a bit more at how much he loved his new daughter. He’d asked her to call him dad because he knew she didn’t have one. He truly loved her like she was one of his own kids. Since she was married to his son, she was his family now. He still loved to hear her say it though. He bent down and kissed her cheek.