Page 19 of My Ex Girlfriend's Brother

“That was great. One more push, and the head will be out,” the doctor instructed.

I hadn’t been nervous up until those words. I wasn’t scared we’d be bad parents because we wanted this baby and already loved her with our hearts and souls. No, I was scared of something going wrong in these last few seconds. It didn’t matter if we had the best doctors in the world. Shit happened.

Stephanie let out one last cry of pain before slumping back in her bed, panting.

The cry of our daughter rang out, and in that instant, nothing else existed. All of my problems faded away.

Dr. Anthony placed our daughter on Stephanie’s chest and looked back and forth between me and Jordan. “Which one of you wants to cut the cord?”

We both moved forward, hands out for the scissors. I gripped them, and Jordan placed his hand over mine. We would do this together like we did everything else since the moment we met. I looked into his eyes with the biggest smile of my life on my face as we cut the cord.

“Are you ready to hold your daughter?” Stephanie asked.

Jordan nodded, looking at me. He came around the bed to stand beside me. “You first.”

I took the most beautiful baby in the world into my arms, just like we had learned in the parenting class we took. Her little head full of black hair fit perfectly in the crook of my elbow. “Can you believe we made something so perfect?”

“Not even a little bit,” Jordan chuckled lightly, putting his arm around my waist. Reaching out, he ran his thumb over her tiny foot that was sticking out of the blanket.

Leaning down, I kissed the most important person in the world to me, besides my husband, on the forehead. “Welcome to the world, River Rose Jensen.”

My life was complete. I’d found the love of my life. His family had become my family, and now we had started one of our own. I’d be forever thankful for the night Jordan stepped foot in my bar and then waited for me to get off work. If it wasn’t for him, I’d be lonely with no family to call my own and a bitchy sister who hid how she felt about me in order to live off me rent-free.

Now, I had what most people only dreamed of—the love of my life and a perfect family.