Chapter 13
"Helen will you please hurry up…" Nikola shouted up the stairs towards his wife. He looked back down at the expensive time piece on his arms. The table was booked for twenty minutes time, and anyone that knew Nikola also knew how much he hated to be late.
Helen finally appeared at the top of the stairs. "She wont settle.." She started walking down the stairs with their 10 week old daughter Maisie in her arms. The babies cries were slowly becoming gentler the longer she was in her mothers arms, but as soon as Helen stopped moving they quickly started becoming louder. Helen started swaying around gently to try and soothe the crying baby.
Nikola sighed. "That's why you were meant to get dressed and go…" He stroked their daughters head, knowing that Helen would never have been able to go out without knowing that the little girl was settled and asleep.
Helen looked at him. "I just…" She looked down at their daughter, she had been such a surprise that they both wanted to make the most out of every minute they had with her. "I just didn't want to leave her…she wasn't settling with anyone else." Sometimes Helen couldn't help but dislike the strength of the maternal instinct she felt, she could never leave her baby crying out for her.
Nikola nodded. "Maybe it was too soon to try and go out." He looked at his watch and realised that they weren't going to make the table anyway now. "How about you take her back upstairs and I'll come and meet you with a tray of something?" He stroked Helen's hair back from her face before kissing her again.
Helen smiled at him. "It wont be forever Niko…" She kissed him back, while she knew how much he loved her and their daughter, she also knew how hard he was finding it that there was someone else more needy that him in their lives. "Come on darling." She lifted the little girl up slightly and carried her back up the stairs, trying all the while to coax her back into a sleep.
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Nikola pushed the door to their bedroom open. The Big Guy had been in the kitchen when he had gone in, and between them they had managed to whip up a tasty looking pasta dish. Along with two large glasses of red Nikola thought the tray of food looked rather appetising. Walking through the door he couldn't help but smile. Helen was sat on their bed resting against the headboard with Maisie sleeping on her chest.
Nikola set the tray of food down, they could always heat it up again later. Gently he climbed into the bed next to Helen and wrapped his arms around her while gently moving them both to be resting in his arms. Looking down at Maisie he couldn't help but love absolutely everything about her. She had blonde hair with the gentlest of curls, and piercing blue eyes. She was everything he could ever have wanted. Moving his eyes he looked at Helen, his Helen. He had never wanted to let himself believe that one day his dreams may become a reality, that the two of them would be married with a baby, yet here they were.
"I'm sorry for ruining your plans." Helen was only half awake as she moved into the side of him. She gentle snuggled down into him, loving the familiar smell of him sitting all around her.
"Don't be…like I said downstairs, it was too soon." Nikola gently kissed the top of her forehead. "Besides, I've got all the time in the world to treat you and take you out for fancy dinners. This little one is only ever going to be a baby once." He ran his hand back over Maisie's head. "And I plan on making the most of every minute of it.
Helen kissed her husband gently on the lips, since coming to her rescue during those awful nightmares the two of them had grown closer every day, and now she couldn't imagine her life without him by her side. "No regrets?" She kissed him again as she asked the question.
Nikola gently shook his head as he looked at the two most important things in his life. "Without you two by my side? Never."