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He laughed. “No. I’m quite certain you don’t give a flying olive for my money.”
Her expression turned serious. “Will there be children?”
“Would you like there to be?”
“Yes.”
“Good. I would too.” He pressed her to himself. “An agreement I’ll be happy to make good on once we’re married.”
She laughed again, a sound Leo hoped to hear for years to come. He kissed her soundly before reluctantly relinquishing her from his arms.
“We have some arrangements to make and children to make happy,” he said as they walked hand in hand to the house.
“Not to mention, parents, Stavros, and Marie.” Rose swung their hands.
“Also we still have your birthday party to plan.” Leo loved her smile and vowed to do all he could to keep it there as often as possible. He knew life would have its challenges, but he and Rose would conquer them together.
Rose laughed.
“What?” he asked.
“You do realize that when word gets out about our wedding, every nanny will be scheming to work for a billionaire in order to land a husband. Poor Marie. How will she ever be able to determine the honest women from the sharks?”
“I shall have to send an apology letter to all the single billionaire men in the world,” Leo said, kissing her knuckles. “And a thank you note to Marie for spraining her foot. If not, she’d have come instead of you.” He wrinkled his nose.
“Yes, well, you certainly couldn’t have fallen for my sister since she’s a married woman.”
He put his hand on Nefeli’s doorknob.
Rose covered it. “What are you doing? She’s asleep.”
“I think waking the children to tell them they have a new mother is important enough to sacrifice sleep.”
Rose groaned. “It’ll take them forever to get back to bed. Can’t we tell them in the morning?”
He chuckled and brushed his lips against hers. “Let the sleepless nights begin.” He winked at her and turned the knob.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Epilogue
Rose flicked at the silver balloon that would soon reveal the gender of her baby. She rubbed her hand over her expanded stomach, which seemed bigger than it should be at this point.
Leo wrapped an arm around her from behind. “Is the baby kicking?”
“Not at the moment.” She turned to face him. “Tell me true, do you want a boy or girl?”
He kissed her. “I want healthy, ten fingers, ten toes, and my wife at my side to raise him or her.”
She felt the weight of Leo’s words and decided to lighten the moment. She narrowed her eyes. “You started with him.”
“We already have one of each.” He jutted his chin toward Nefeli chasing Adonis, trying to get back her pink balloon. She was decidedly in the girl camp, and Adonis in the boy camp. “Whichever our child is they’ll be a blessing.” He looked up at the balloon. “Sure you don’t want to pop it before the cake?”
“No. After.”
“Are you sure you want to know at all? We could make it a surprise.”
“Nope. I want to decorate the nursery. I want to nest.” She kissed her husband.