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“Your wife is on her way to the chapel son,”

Lucas heard his mom say and his heart skipped a beat, this was really happening, he was getting married today to the love of his life, it still felt surreal even though it was happening, during the preparations for the big day, each morning he wakes up and doubts for a moment if it was really happening and she reminds him each time that it was, he still didn’t know if he deserves all the love and attention she gives him, if it was okay for him to feel this much happiness and love, a little over a ten months, ago, he had thought himself incapable of love and being loved but now, getting ready for his big day, the day he thought he was never going to witness, was like a dream, a dream he didn’t want to ever wake up from.

“Mom, this is really happening? I am getting married? Kat really loves me?”

“Of course son, all are happening and Katrina loves you, you deserve to be loved my dear and you got the best, I just know your life is going to be a happy one, I am so proud of you son, you, and your sisters,”

His mom said hugging him, his sister Lilac put to birth two weeks ago, she got over her due date and had been scared she might give birth on his wedding day, that didn’t happen though, she was all bubbly and laughing and being a whole mood, teasing about not wanting to fall in while being head over heels with his secretary, that was fun but at the same time not fun, if only he had realized earlier but then, maybe back then wasn’t their time, their time came and it happened, when he had sent invitations to Reuben whose house this whole happy experience started from he had been excited and said he had been waiting for it and almost thought it will never come, and of course, he came today, so did their close friends and most of his workers, he already knew the day will be perfect.

“Let’s go, let’s go, you don’t want to be late,”

His eldest sister Leah said as both his sisters and dad walked in.

“I am proud of you son,”

His dad said patting him on the back.

“Thanks, Dad,”

“Yes we are all proud of him for making the right choices whether in business or his love life and now he is starting a family, I just know you are going to be a great husband and father,”

“Thank you, Leah,”

“I am proud of you baby brother,”

“I am not a baby anymore, I am going to be a dad soon,”

“Yes, but you are still my baby brother,”

“And mine too,”

“You guys, I am not a baby,”

He protested his mom and dad started laughing at him, they always made fun of him, a peck of being the youngest in the family, he just have to accept that he can’t outgrow being their baby.

“Yes, you are,”

Leah replied, he pulled her in for a hug as his mom, Dad and Lilac joined the hug, his family, he knew they got his back always.

“Let’s go,”

Leah said one more time, and they left the hotel, he was gonna be a married man by the end of today and he couldn’t wait…

“Here comes the beautiful bride,”

Lucas looked up at the entrance, eagerly and nervously waiting when the door opened, his heart stopped for a moment, his whole life stared back at him, from the entrance of the chapel, she was wearing the gown they had both decided on and she looked breathtaking, she did take his breath, and when she smiled held her dad’s hand and started working towards him, he felt light-headed.

“Dude, are you going to faint?”

His best man Jordan whispered, he looked at him before facing the entrance again.

“No, but I feel like it,”

He whispered back, staring at the love of his life, his woman, his whole world, who said love wasn’t real? Who said happily ever after wasn’t a thing? How wrong that person must have been because he just got his, it took a while but he still got his happily ever after, he smiled brightly as Katrina’s father handed her over to him, hugged the both of them and went to take his seat, he turned to his world and smiled at her.

“You look so beautiful baby, I love you,”

“I love you too, and you are breathtaking,”

She replied as they turned to face the priest, they exchanged their vows in the presence of their loved ones, the priest pronounced them men and wife and Lucas couldn’t contain his emotions, his eyes watered as he kissed his bride, his wife, his forever, life just got even better…

(One month and Two weeks later)

“Wifey,”

Lucas called as he walked up to her where she sat in their room, they were still in Arizona even after their wedding, after the birth of their baby then they will return to New York, Lucas for once didn’t want to go back to New York, he liked it here, being with both his extended family and beloved nuclear family, still, Katrina’s parents and sibling were New Yorkers and deserved to be near their daughter too, these days he worked mostly from home, except it’s a pressing issue that requires his attention, he left most of the job in the good hands of his directors, do far it was going smoothly, he hoped it continues that way because he wanted to concentrate on his family.

“Wifey?”

He called again, his wife was sitting at the far end of the room her back to him, marriage to Katrina had been one of his best decision, being with her is everything, she is everything.

“Katrina? Why aren’t yo** baby? What’s going on?”

He asked walking faster to her, She had her eyes closed and looked

“The baby, it’s coming,”

Okay, that wasn’t what he was expecting.

*****

“Hold up, we still have two weeks, how are you giving birth already?”

Lucas asked Katrina as another wave of pain passed, she almost let out a breath of relief but she knew that wasn’t all, Lucas looked so confused that she felt pity for him but that didn’t last, the pain that hit her again sent her into full mode, she yelled at him to go get help but he wasn’t even functioning properly, well fuck it, she thought trying to get up by herself bad idea, the cramp got even worst, she cried out, he got himself back at that moment and tried to help her up, she dragged his hair.

“I said Go! Get! helppppppp!!!”

She yelled yacking at his hair.

He ran out of the room looking sacred, the dude was hopeless, a few moments later, his mom, dad, and siblings who had been visiting too came rushing to their room, his sisters rushed to her side and helped her get up, the cramp was less now and she could feel her legs again but she knew it wasn’t over, far from it, this was just the beginning.

“Lucas, why are you standing there, go get the driver, or do you want her to give birth here?

Leah yelled at him, Katrina looked up at her husband, he was hopeless, he ran off as they helped her out of the room, she had first felt cramps the night before but she had thought it was just the normal thing but it has gotten worst, she didn’t want him to panic so she hadn’t told him until well, it got to this extent, then she realized their baby was coming two weeks early.

“Time to meet the new addition to the family,”

His mom said excitedly as they helped her into the car, throughout the journey to the hospital, she couldn’t recall much, just pain and Lucas scared face, when they got to the hospital, she had thought he would seat out the delivery and just wait outside but he insisted on coming with her, she couldn’t lie she was grateful he went in with her even though he collapsed right before she gave birth and came to when the doctor woke him to cut the umbilical cord even while cutting her husband had looked so pale, she had wanted to laugh.

Their baby was born at exactly eleven Fifteen am, four hours after she got to the hospital, she couldn’t say it was an easy birth but it wasn’t so bad when she looked at her baby girl for the first time, it was worth all the stress, worry everything.

“Our little angel is so precious,”

Katrina said as she watched their baby sleep with her husband by her side a few hours after, he still looked out of it, she would never let him see the end of it, he looked like he just went through hell and had a one on one with Satan.

“Yeah, but I won’t call her an angel, she literally made both of us go through hell, yours worst, me I was just there losing my shit and being so scared and fainting, that was the first time I lost consciousness in my whole life,”

He said shivering.

She laughed softly at his expression, patting his shoulders.

“She is an angel, just look at her, an angel,”

“Yes, she is but you are more than an angel Mine, you did all the work and you are still smiling so brightly,”

He added, she smiled at the new nickname, he always calls her the sweetest names and it made her heart full each time.

“I like this one, Mine,”

“Yes, you are mine,”

“And you are mine too,”

“Of course,”

“Now about the name, she is here, we are bad parents for not picking a name before birth, let’s do that now, we never got to decide,”

“I think we did,”

“We did?”

“Yes, Asteria, remember? A star? Remember the night we were looking at the night sky?”

“Yes, I do, and I love it, our baby star, Asteria Evans,”

“Sound so much better when you say it, Mine,”

“Of course, you will say that,”

“It’s true, even Asteria will agree,”

She looked at their little star she was sleeping soundly, her world was here and she couldn’t be happier, she had just given birth and she wanted to be a mom again soon, yes, maybe in the next one or two years, a younger sibling for baby star won’t be bad.

“What are you thinking about Mine?”Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

“Nothing, just siblings for Steria,”

“So soon?, Aren’t you scared of going through that again?”

He asked, he looked genuinely scared, she was afraid being present in the delivery room had scarred him for life.

“Of course, I want more, don’t worry, it will be less stressful next time,”

“Really? Because I don’t want you to go through that again,”

“Yes, sweetie, I promise,”

“Okay, fine, we work on that but for now, I want to enjoy being with my little star and her mom until our moon comes too,”

She laughed at the name he had already given their unborn baby, her home was gonna one happy and cheerful home, she just knew it.

“Thank you so much for everything Katrina Evans, you are my life, you and our princess, you guys mean the world to me, I am never going to let you guys go,”

“We won’t let go either, we love you too much,”

“I love you, Katrina,”

“I know, and I love you more,”

“Forever?”

He asked.

“Yes, my love, forever,”

She hugged him closer, yes forever, that’s what it’s gonna be, loving Lucas and being with him and their children was how she wanted the rest of her life to be, growing old with the man she fell in love with, whom she thought would never be hers and who the universe collectively agreed to let her have, yes she got it all, Everything…

The End…