A/N: As promised here is the final chapter of this story! Hope you like it!
As always the mistakes are mine. Enjoy!
EPILOGUE
{Christian}
Four Years Later
"Harper Landry! You leave your brother alone!" I yell across the backyard as I watch our six-year-old daughter taunt her four-year-old brother as he decides if he wants to jump off the pools diving board.
"But Daddy." She whines as she tries to play off the fact that she was about to push him in. Ginger is waiting at the top of the steps as my son takes his sweet time.
Even though Ryan has the day off he offered to take the kids swimming for a few hours to give us a chance to pack our bags. He has truly been one of the best and loyalist employees that we've got, besides Taylor and Gail of course. We've blurred the lines a long time ago and now our children think of him as an Uncle just like Elliott. In fact, they have to compete for time when the weekends come.
A lot has changed since we renewed our vows four years ago.
First off, we welcomed our perfect baby boy who came into the world screaming like a banshee four months after our ceremony. He was just beautiful and the entire birthing was an amazing experience. I had missed Harper's birth and I had the worst guilt in the days leading up to he due date. Of course, Ana wouldn't let me dwell on it for too long but I did lay there almost every night by Harper's bedside and promise to never miss another important milestone of her life ever again. And I haven't.
Kason Axel Grey came into the world weighing nine pounds one ounce. He was wrinkly and red but perfect in every way. I was in love the moment the doctor pulled him from Ana. I knew that nothing in the world would separate us and that our family was whole again.
Ana had asked for a paternity test as soon as she was settled into our hospital suite but I said no. It didn't matter whose DNA he had. He was mine. But like most of the time, Ana wins. We had Kason's mouth swabbed and blood drawn then myself and we waited twenty-four hours for the lab to run the test. We were getting ready to leave the hospital when the doctor came in with the results. We both stared at the envelope for what seemed like forever when Ryan and Taylor came in to carry our bags down to the car.
"Either open it or trash it but either way we have a very hungry little monster down with Gail wanting her brother and wanting to eat." Ryan nudged us both before they both left us and a sleeping baby alone.
"Do we need to know?" I asked. "We could just put it in the safe for later."
"No, I need to know. We need to know for health reasons and to sleep better at night." Ana stated. I know that she was the one who needs this.
"Okay."
I reached down and pulled the tab on the back then reached in and grabbed the single paper.
Seattle Hospital Paternity Labs
It is concluded that the sample given of Patient A (Kason Axel Grey) and the sample given from Patient B (Christian Trevelyan Grey) have been tested and the results are as follows.
Patient A (Kason Axel) and Patient B (Christian Grey) are 99.99%…
My heart stops beating and I crumpled the paper. Tears flood my eyes. I wasn't expecting this to have such impact on me. I already claimed him as mine either way but to know that both of my children share me and Ana is something unexpected.
Ana grabs both of my arms and must think I'm upset but it is further from the truth.
"Oh god, Christian, I'm sorry." She starts to wail then wraps her arms around her body, retreating within herself. "Why was I so stupid? How could I have let him manipulate me so easily?"
"Ana, baby…"
"I understand if this changes things for you and you want to leave. Have nothing to do with my baby…"
"ANA!" I scream to get her attention and in doing so I wake Kason.
We both hurry over to him in his carrier but I almost shove her out of the way forgetting that she had just given birth not so long ago. Carefully, like Ana and the nurses have shown me, I cradle him against my chest.
"He's mine." I say to her and hum in his ear to soothe him back to sleep.
"I know you said that it didn't matter about DNA but after seeing your reaction you don't have to if you don't want to Christian. There is still time to have the birth certificate changed."
"Anastasia, you're not listening. He. Is. Mine." I lean over the bed and pick up the crumpled piece of paper handing it to her.
Her eyes scan over the words several times as if not believing what she's reading.
"He's yours." She says in disbelief.
"He's mine." I proudly say and pat his little back.
"I was so worried…"
"I told you I had awesome swimmers!"
Her smile could light up a football stadium and that's how it should be for the rest of our lives. She comes over and hugs me, careful to not wake a now sleeping baby.
"I didn't think it was possible to love you more Christian, but every day you surprise me and I fall in love even deeper."
The second thing that has changed for us is that I only work Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday's at GEH. I've put the best team in place to help GEH grow and Ros has everything she needs. I mostly go in and sign off on things in the middle of the week and hold all my meetings on those days. If it can't be done during those days then it gets pushed back to the next week. I've worked my ass off getting GEH where it is, so now is the time to reap the spoils of my hard work.
Plus, I love being at home with the kids all day. Yes, there are days when I want to rip my hair out but nothing is more rewarding than watching them grow up right before your eyes.
So, that brings me to the third thing that has happened in the last four years. Three months after Kason was born we found out that Ana was pregnant again. Like I said, my swimmers are awesome. Let's just say that the pull-out method was not in our cards, or I may have stayed in a little longer than necessary, but hey, when a man's in the moment with his hot wife naked begging him to fuck her harder what's a man to do?
Nine months later we welcomed Addison Haley Grey at seven pounds five ounces. She was just as perfect as her brother. She has my beautiful eyes like her older sister and Ana's hair color. Her and Harper could be twins in how their features match up. Although, she has my scowl perfectly perfected.
We named her after my mother's sister, Haley Marie. After we got back from our second honeymoon, Ana and I sat down and spoke about Ella's family that I had found when I was putting my demons to bed for those two years Ana was gone. We decided to reach out to her and she was more than welcoming. She still lived in Michigan in a little town two cities over from Detroit. Haley Marie looks just like Ella and at times it was hard to sit there and look at her, but as time went by my horrible memories faded and now I only see a woman who did the best she could. Their parents had died in a car wreck when Haley Marie was eighteen and Ella was fifteen. Haley Marie did the best she could raising Ella but it wasn't enough. Ella got caught up with a bad crowd and she disappeared for days on end. Finally, one day Ella never came home. She wrote to Haley Marie months later saying she was living with a boyfriend in Detroit and for her to have a good life.
Of course, Haley Marie regrets not being able to do more and find her but being a kid herself, trying to survive was hard on her also. I don't blame my aunt for the choices Ella made or how she ended up because we've all made decisions we aren't proud of. Over the years we've stayed close, she wasn't able to have any children and worked at the local high school as a cafeteria worker since she was twenty. Finally, two years ago I was able to talk her into moving to Seattle to be close to us. She's the only biological family I have left and it didn't sit right with me to have her so far away and all alone. Ana and I have set her up in a beautiful home near our family and she helps out at a local homeless shelter since I've padded her bank accounts with more money than she knows what to do with.
Elliott has surprised us all with his settling down. Never did I think it was in the cards for him but one day he came over with a woman who he'd helped on the side of the road. She was short with dark hair and glasses, a straight up bookworm like my wife. It was a huge contrast from his tall blonde long legged women from before. She was just as cute as a button and apparently perfect for my brother. They married six months from the time he saved her from the road and are expecting their first baby this spring. His time with Ros and Gwyn only lasted a few months as Elliot thought it was a little complicated in pleasing not one but two women. Not in the sex part, according to him, but in the communicating and emotions of women.
Kate and John Paul are married and have two sets of twins. They live in Europe where his business is mostly based but come to visit every two months. We go out and visit them on the months they can't get here. He's really a great guy and has an excellent business head on his shoulders. We've actually done a few business ventures together and it's been more than profitable.
Mia, well, she got married a year ago and we couldn't be happier. She had been focused on her restaurants so much that dating and settling down didn't have a place in her schedule until a blonde-haired green-eyed guy by the name of Ethan Kavanagh walked back into her life. They both had tried to reconnect several times since Ana and I came back from Montana but the timing was never right. Finally, as a family, we got together and secretly sent them both on a trip to a secluded tropical island where they were the only ones there except staff. We managed to block off twenty days for them to see if being together was in the cards. As soon as they got back they were connected at the hip from then on. Mia waited forever before she would say yes to his proposals. She actually took from Ana's book and asked him like Ana did me. They were married six months later and are wanting to start a family soon.
Grace is part-time at the hospital and has been helping out at our house with our brood for the last few years. She's the best grandmother to our children and couldn't be more pleased. Her and Carrick reconciled eighteen months ago. At first, I wasn't happy about it and refused to understand why she'd take him back but then Dr. Blake quickly reminded me that even I made a mistake and was forgiven. Don't think that it was an easy process but Ana was the one who offered the olive branch first. She amazes me at every turn. I also think that not having either of her parents present in her life had a lot to do with it too. That doesn't mean that security leaves the room when our kids hang out over at their house but we are slowly mending the bridge. Carrick apologizes every time we see him but I think it's going to take a long time for Ana and him to ever build a relationship where she feels comfortable with being in the same room alone together. He is a great grandfather to our kids but it doesn't mean all is forgotten.
"Christian? Is that you?" I hear my angel calling from in the walk-in closet.
"Yes, baby." She packing her a bag even though Gail said she would take care of it.
"I can't find my pink slippers. Have you seen them?" She calls out.
I look over at the end of the bed and see Zeus hang his head. He knows how she gets.
"Have you looked on your feet?" I say sweetly hoping to ease the blow that's about to erupt.
"Ugh!" She groans and pops out of the closet. "This is the last time Grey! No more!"
She is even more beautiful than when I met her all those years ago. Ana comes barreling out with a rolling suitcase wearing only panties and a bra. Her nine-month pregnant belly on display making me harder than ever.
"Baby, that's what you said with Addi and look where we are now." I place a firm hand on her belly and feel a hard kick. "If I remember, you were begging for my cum nine months ago when the discussion of another precious baby was brought up."
"I know but this one is it. Any time you're naked I lose all rational thought." She whines. "I think you should get snipped." She snuggles as I sit her on my lap.
"Snipped?" I question and my body flinches. She giggles and lays her head on my shoulder.
"Is Addi still napping?" She nips my earlobe sending my body abuzz.
"Mhmm."
"So maybe we have a little time to get this little girl out the old fashion way than being induced?"
"Oh, you naughty devil." I bite her shoulder right under her ear where her neck is. "Zeus door." I command and he does as he's told and shuts our bedroom door. I place my wife at the end of the bed with her arms on the bed and her feet spread open firmly on the floor. Being ready to pop is a challenge when having sex and finding the most comfortable positions for her. "I think I'm up for the challenge Mrs. Grey."
Six hours later we welcome Mallory Christian Grey into the world. She was quiet as a mouse and her cries were barely heard. She weighed six pounds nine ounces with strawberry blonde hair. Like all the other births I cried hard and louder than our children as they placed them in my arms.
Never did I imagine my life would be this full of happiness and love. I've always thought that I'd end up alone but all it took was one tiny brunette woman to bring me to my knees and change me in ways I never thought possible. She is the light to my darkness, the moon that brightens the dark skys. She is the love of my life and nothing and no one will ever change that. We've been through hell and back to get where we are today and strangely I wouldn't change it for anything. In life you have good with the bad and even in our bad times we shined through and came out better people for it. When push comes to shove she is my number one person. It truly is us against the world. She leans on me and I lean on her. Where my weaknesses are she is stronger and vice versa.
There's a whimper coming from the small bassinette in our hospital suite and I quickly bolt from the recliner so that my sleeping wife can have a few more moments of rest.
"Hey pretty girl." I sing in a whisper as she coos back to me. She truly is a quiet baby. "Did you have a good nap?" She stares at me, or at least I think so. "How about a quick change and then we'll wake mommy, huh?"
I cradle her in my arms and lay her down at the changing station here in the hospital. I've become a pro at this over the years and love it. Most men refuse to change a single diaper and get their hands dirty, but I find that it's the best time to have some daddy/baby time. I get to tell them all about life and how they are going to be the best at everything. With Kason and Addi we even had secret hand bumps during our late-night changings. I was meant for this life, I just didn't know it until it was right in front of my face. I'm just hoping I can get one more from Ana before she puts her petite sized foot down and we stop making the world's best babies.
Once I'm finished, I'm surprised to find my beautiful wife awake watching me and Mallory.
"How're you feeling, baby?"
"Sore but good." She responds. "You really are the master at diaper changes, you know."
I shrug while swaddling her in her soft purple blanket that Harper picked out. Apparently, I was destined to be a father to mostly girls. Kason and I are completely outnumbered in our house.
"I didn't push out a baby so I'd like to think this is my contribution."
"Well, I think it makes you even sexier for it."
"Careful, or I'll impregnate you again before we leave the hospital." I tease but I wish I could.
I know we have a houseful of healthy wonderful kids at home but there is something about Ana being pregnant that sets me on fire. She is the most beautiful, glowing woman I've ever witness, and she's the best mother a child could hope for.
"Can we revisit this after Mallory is out of diapers?" She suggests and hope blooms in my chest at having another set of little feet toddle down our hallways.
"You can have anything you want, baby."
I place Mallory on the half circle pillow under Ana's breast and she latches on without any problem. It seems all our children take to the tit like their dad.
"I don't want anything but our children and you." She states looking up from the baby. Sometimes I think this is all a dream, that I'll wake up from one day and be alone in my large office. But each day I'm reminded that tomorrow is never promised and that we need to live each one to the fullest.
Cupping her face, I lightly kiss her lips as the smacking from our daughter reminds me that we aren't alone.
"Love you, baby." I whisper against her lips.
"Love you more."
THE END
A/N: Thank you from the bottom of my heart! You never know when writing a story if others are going to respond well but you guys have blown me away with all your comments and love for this story. I can't thank you enough. If you liked the drama in this one then try my other story called Rough Riders MC. It is A/U but has our favorite couple in the mix.
Thank you again and hopefully I'll be back soon with something else to write about. I know that some are wanting me to finish the Glitter Challenge one-shot but I'm not sure where to take that one. Maybe once I've had a little while to think I'll see what I can do.
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