Earning His Princess

Chapter 18

Chapter 18

***One year later***

It's been an interesting year. Abel is 15 months old and toddles around everywhere. Thomas is three months old and my mom has moved on from my dad...with Piney. Like I said...interesting year. We're sitting at the clubhouse and the prospects have Abel on the swings and he's giggling. Mom is sitting next to me, holding Thomas and Janie is sitting at the table with us along with Gemma.

"How are you feeling baby?" Gemma asks Janie. "I'm okay. Just feels like the baby is kicking me in the back." she says. We all look at each other and she asks "What?" I move over to her and say "Let me feel your stomach." I place my hands on her stomach and push just a little and her stomach is hard. "Sis, I don't think the baby is kicking you. Those might be contractions." I tell her and she smiles. Janie looks down and rubs her stomach and smiles. We sit for the next hour and time her contractions as they get closer together.

The prospect brings Abel to me and he's calling out "Mamamamama." I pull him to me and hold him close. Janie looks at Gemma and says "I need to walk." Gemma helps her up and before Janie can take a step, her water breaks. "Mom?" Janie says, panicking. Mom hands Thomas to Gemma and cups Janie's face. "Let's get you to the hospital." she says. Gemma looks at the prospect and tells him to get the guys and a couple of minutes later, the guys are on their bikes and we are all headed to the hospital.

We are all sitting in the waiting room and mom steps out and says "Your sister wants to see you." I hand Thomas to Gemma and follow my mom to the room with Jax, after he hands Abel to Clay. Walking into my sister's room, we see Juice sitting on her bed with his forehead to hers and she's holding their new baby. They look up as we walk in and both have tears in their eyes. "Hey." I say softly. "Hey. Come here." Janie says. We walk over to the bed and she turns the baby for me to see. "Meet Emmelynn Gracella Ortiz." She moves to hand Emmelynn to me and as I hold her I whisper "Hey Princess. I'm your Aunt Eva." I look at Janie and say "She's perfect." Mom comes over and sits in the spot where Juice was and the three of us are huddled together. Three generations of us.

After everyone sees Emmelynn, we all start heading home and after Jax and I walk into the house and get the boys to bed, we are sitting out on the back deck, Jax says "I have something to show you." He takes out his phone and shows me a picture he took. "I sent it to Janie and your mom." he told me. "Jax. I can't believe you took this." I whisper, as I look at the picture again. It's a picture of me, mom, Janie and Emmy. He wraps his arm around me and pulls me close. We have our family and it just keeps getting bigger. I guess the Prince of Charming finally earned his Princess.