After making sure all the burners on the stove were off, Byron whisked her off into the bedroom. As expected, and so very grateful for it, Vannah was completely naked and lying underneath his big hard body within minutes. As usual, her body willingly succumbed to his every touch, taste, kiss and stroke as he made love to her over and over as if they’d been doing so forever.
The initial startling call had come at three AM, waking them out of their spent stupors. Any call at that time of night would shake anyone up, and Byron had jumped out of bed looking, and sounding every bit as alarmed as Vannah had felt. But the dread had been fleeting. His brother Beast had been calling from the hospital to let Byron know his wife Ali had just given birth to a perfectly healthy baby boy. Byron all set to head straight to the hospital on the spot, but after his brother let him know they were both exhausted and visiting hours weren’t until later that morning anyway, Byron and Vannah had gone back to bed. Though as usual sleep was the last thing on their mind.
Beast had asked Byron to pick up his girls at Ali’s sister’s. Ali’s sister Lila, a former women’s boxing champ herself had a previously planned business trip out of town that day that she couldn’t get out of.
Lila was already gone when Beast asked him to pick them up and bring them to the hospital. The girls were in the care of Lila’s nanny in the meantime. Vannah had heard so much about Elsa and Lucy from Byron, that she felt like she knew them already, but she hadn’t expected the overload of cuteness. When they arrived, the girls ran straight to their squatting uncle’s open arms. “Uncle, B!”
“We have a new baby bwuduh.” The youngest one said.
“I heard,” Byron said hugging them both, then pulling back to look at them, still squatting before them. “Congratulations, big sisters. You ready to go meet him?”
“Yes!” they both said in unison but noticeably turned to look at Vannah curiously.
Byron turned to Vannah as well, as he stood up and reached for her hand. “Okay, but first I’d like you to meet my girlfriend, Savannah.”
They stared at Savannah a bit timidly and she smiled at them even if her heart had begun pounding after hearing him refer to her as his girlfriend for the very first time.
“Babe.” He squeezed her hand. “These are my two Littles, Elsa and Lucy.”
“Hi,” she waved at them smiling big. “Very nice to meet you.”
They waved back but appeared a little stunned, then Lucy turned to Byron. “I didn’t know you had a gilfwend.”
Byron turned to Vannah and smiled. “Yeah, I didn’t either until very recently.” He turned back to Lucy who leaned against his leg looking up at Vannah. “But now that its official, I knew the first thing I had to do was introduce her to you two.”
“Are you coming to meet Lucas too?” Elsa asked Vannah.
“Is that his name?” Byron asked. “I didn’t even think to ask your dad when he called. I was half asleep.”
“Lucas Edwuhd Ledesma,” Lucy said very proudly. “Elsa showed me how to spell it alweady.”
“I like it,” Vannah said nodding. “That’s a very nice name and sure I’d love to meet your new baby brother.”
“Me and Lucy helped pick out his name.”
Vannah smiled big. “Well, it’s an excellent choice.”
Inez, Lila’s nanny explained that the girls had already had breakfast. Byron grabbed their bags and they all headed back to his car. He hadn’t been kidding when he’d warned Vannah that the girls could be very inquisitive. The entire ride to the hospital they grilled Vannah from everything about her school, about being a twin, to the color of her nail polish. Thankfully, unlike most people who harped on about her being a twin, their attention spans weren’t up for it. They moved on quickly from one topic to another. Vannah kept up with all their questions, often laughing at just how unabashed their questioning could get without either batting an eye.
“Are you in love with Uncle B?” Elsa asked making Vannah nearly gasp.
Byron glanced at her arching a brow but brought his eyes back to the road with a smirk. She turned back to the two adorable pairs of curious eyes. But addressed Elsa. “Yes,” she admitted even as her insides went wild. “Very much so.”
She glanced at Lucy curiously as she recited something under her breath but Vannah only caught the tail end. “. . . then comes mewedge. Then comes baby—” She stopped suddenly as her mouth fell open. “Ah you getting meweed and having a baby?”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa!” Byron said exaggeratingly loud. “She didn’t say all that.”
Vannah laughed swatting him playfully. “Why is that so out of the question?”
“Yeah, Uncle B.” Elsa asked. “Aren’t you in love with her too?”
“Well, yeah but—"
“Mommy said that’s what happens when two people ah in love,” Lucy said almost in a scolding tone. “They get meweed and have babies.”
Deciding to get him off the hook, Vannah turned back to the girls. “I still have four years of school to finish.”
“And?” Both girls asked simultaneously.
Byron and Vannah exchanged glances and Vannah laughed nervously. “Well, I have to concentrate on finishing first before moving on to other things.”
“My mommy got married and had me before finishing college,” Elsa countered.
“That’s different,” Byron said as they pulled into the hospital’s parking lot.
“How?” Lucy asked looking genuinely curious.
Vannah felt her eyes widen, because Byron had told her about this when he’d elaborated further about his relationship with his brother. Getting married and having a baby before their mother could finish school, was not something either Ali or Byron had planned. But Vannah was quite sure the girls were still too young to know the whole truth.
“Never mind how,” Byron said putting the car in park after pulling into a parking space. “But I’ll tell you this much. I do have every intention of marrying her someday. If it were up to me.” He glanced up at Vannah and flashed that beautiful smile. “I’d marry her tomorrow.”
Both girls smiled big as Vannah’s heart sped up instantly. She knew he couldn’t possibly be serious. Clearly, he knew his Littles that well, that he known that’d be enough to satisfy their curiosity and get them moving on to the next topic.
“I wanna hold Lucas fuhst,” Lucy declared, as all four walked through the parking lot holding hands.
“But I’m the oldest,” Elsa protested.
“So?”
“I heard he’s a big one,” Byron said as they walked into the hospital. “Probably too heavy for either of you to hold him by yourselves just yet. You can both sit on a chair and hold him together. How ‘bout that?”
Just like that, both girls were smiling again, their bright eyes full of anticipation. Fortunately, when they got in to see the baby, Lucas was the immediate focus of everyone’s attention. Byron had given Beast and Ali a quick and dirty introduction to his girlfriend, but the girls were so full of questions about the baby their parents couldn’t really ask too much about Vannah right away.