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to give birth to their brother and we will see them later.”
The guard nodded, then turned and hurried out of the delivery room.
“Nasir, it hurts!” she yelled, arching her back as another contraction hit her.
The obstetrician came through the doorway, smiling gently as one of the nurses pulled latex gloves over his hands. “Good morning, Your Highness. Apparently, it is time to give this country another heir!” he laughed at his own joke, then moved between Cassandra’s legs, feeling for her cervix. “Good grief, you are already fully dilated!”
“I know!” she yelled, fighting to keep from pushing.
The man looked astounded for a moment, then he nodded sharply. “You’ve delivered three healthy boys. There is nothing to fear.”
Cassy gasped for breath as the contraction eased. “Right! Says the man who hasn’t ever experienced labor.”
Nasir pushed her hair out of her eyes. “Honey, you can do this. Our son will join us soon and you will no longer have this…”
She writhed, screaming as another contraction hit. “No! No, no, no!”
Nasir wasn’t sure what she was objecting to, but figured it was better to be silent.
Five hours later, his fingers were probably broken but he could finally see the head of his son. “Almost there!” the doctor called out over Cassandra’s screams. “Just one more big push!”
Cassy shook her head, sweat drenching her hair. “I can’t!” she whimpered. But her body took over and she bent at the waist, pushing with all her might.
“There it is!” the doctor called out. “Keep pushing! Keep pushing!”
Cassy screamed, wanting to punch Nasir but the pain and the intense need to push won out. She couldn’t seem to do anything other than scream as the pain ripped through her. Moments later, the doctor smiled as her baby gave a soft cry.
“It’s a girl!” the doctor announced, grinning from ear to ear.
In the ensuing silence, the nurses, doctor, not to mention Cassy and Nasir, stared at the new arrival.
“A girl!” Cassy whispered, awed and unaware of the tears sliding down her cheeks. “A girl!”
Unfortunately, Cassy was too weak to hold herself up and flopped back against the delivery table. Nasir moved to cut the umbilical cord, then held out his arms to take the tiny girl-child into his arms. A nurse wrapped a cotton blanket around her, and transferred their daughter into dad’s arms.
“A girl!’ he whispered, moving the cotton blanket out of the way to peer into the wrinkled, furious, red face of his baby girl.
Moving to Cassandra, he lowered his arms so that she could look.
“She’s beautiful,” Cassy murmured, still trying to recover.
Nasir nodded his agreement. “I love you,” and he bent his head to kiss Cassy’s forehead.
“I love you, too,” she whispered back. “Especially since testosterone didn’t win this time!”
He laughed, shaking his head even as he cradled his daughter in his arms. “Our sons are going to…” They both cringed. “I’ll hold off on telling them.”
Cassy laughed, since their three boys had already been building a fort in which their next brother would live. Yeah, she thought as she watched Nasir cradling their baby girl. Life was pretty darn amazing!
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“Figures,” Ella grumbled, staring up at the imposing building that housed the headquarters of Reynolds Industries. Over the past few days, she’d done her research and, although the Duke of Theeds, Edward Reynolds, was still alive, he wasn’t active in the social world anymore. But he hadn’t passed his title or wealth on to his son, Malcolm Reynolds. In a way, Ella respected Malcolm more because he’d created so much from nothing. He hadn’t inherited his wealth, like so many rich aristocrats in the world. He’d created a massive empire through grit and determination. He was thirty-six years old and a billionaire many times over. He bought ailing companies, fixed them up, and sold them off. So he didn’t really own anything, other than a huge amount of land and real estate, all of which was separate from his investment company.
And yet, she remembered that shiver of awareness a couple of days ago at the restaurant. The man was tall and arrogant, she thought. But if there was one thing that had never impressed her, it was wealth. In fact, because of the way Edward Reynolds had treated Ella’s mother, the way the arrogant jerk had simply tossed her out of his house because he could, his