Chocolate Rewards: The Sweetness of Two Worlds Colliding Together (22 page)

“
Don't
sleep. Stay awake. You haven't looked at the baby, yet.” That was
the doctor's voice. Amber figured that he was the one causing the
warmth in her to spread. He would be healing her and she would live
to see her daughter grow up.

“
Amethyst.
Her name is Amethyst,” she told them. The corners of her mouth
curled up.

“
That's
a lovely name.”

“
I like
it, too. It has been all I could think about lately. I'm really
tired. Can I sleep now?”

Rokai
looked up at the doctor. The laser was still moving up.

“
Not
yet.” The doctor had to go very slowly, moving too quickly could be
too much for her heart.

“
No
more children. I can't bare the sight of watching her in pain,”
Rokai told the doctor.

“
Amber
did you want more children?” the doctor asked.

“
I
think two is enough.”

“
I
agree,” Emily threw in. She was wiping tears away from her eyes.
She loved her daughter so much. Relief filled Emily's heart because
Amber was still alive. Color was slowly returning to Amber's cheeks.

“
Okay
then. I'll change the setting. But it would be better if you two
stayed together from now on. The separation almost killed her.”

“
Is
that possible?” Emily asked the doctor.

“
Yes,
it is. This is a very clear case. If both had been healthy then they
can be apart for a couple of days, but not in her condition.”

“
This
was our fault. I'm so sorry.” Emily felt so guilty.

“
I'm
fine now, mom. Don't worry. Take care of Amethyst.”

“
She
can sleep now,” the doctor declared. He went over to the baby. “May
I?” He felt very lucky to be able to doctor this famous family,
which now had two children, a boy and girl. This post had been a very
lucky one. He was rising up to be one of the most important doctor's
in the universe, thanks to the Emkos.

“
The
baby is perfectly healthy. Who wants to hold her?” He turned to
Zufu and laid the baby in her arms.

Zufu
smiled down at the child and then over at her mistress. She swore to
love and protect everyone in this family for the rest of her life.
She was pleased beyond words to not only have gained a new baby to
love and care for today, but to have also gained Amber's parents.

She went
over to Emily. “You have the most beautiful granddaughter in the
universe.” She placed Amethyst in her arms.

Emily sat
down and stared at her daughter's daughter. She told Zufu about Amber
when she had been a baby. Zufu listened to each word eagerly. It was
her job to carry such information to the coming generations.

Rokai
sighed happily. The best decision he had ever made was to take Amber
along with him that day. It had been a decision that changed
everything that came after it.

She was
his destiny.

“
I love
you, Rokai.”

“
I love
you, too. I will forever.”

________

Emily
and Kulani quickly adjusted to life on a new planet. They got to
watch their two beautiful grandchildren grow up and see their
daughter and son-in-law living happily together in perfect love. They
also got to eat as many chocolates as they wanted.

A
Man To Guide Her

Ashley
St. Claire, once again, has to move to a new town because her
father's company has relocated them. This is nothing new to her. She
is prepared to finish up the couple of months of school and then go
off to college. She didn't think that this little town would really
make an impression on her in any way.

Jackson
Howl sees Ashley at church and their eyes lock. Both find it
difficult to look away from the other. He quickly falls in love with
Ashley, who has never heard of Domestic Discipline. Jackson is,
clearly, a firm believer.

Will
she marry him despite that?

Becky's
Birthday (a short story)

Daniel
just wanted a quiet evening when he went into his favorite sports bar
but a group of young women celebrating a birthday annoy him. When the
birthday girl asks him to buy her a drink he scolds her.

Later
he sees her sitting outside on the curb. He has to take her and she
admits that she needs a man to take care of her on a regular basis.

Callie
Part 1

Callie
Evans' world is turned upside down in a matter of days. She had been
staying with her grandmother for a week when the news arrives, that
her father was killed. Her grandmother decides that she can't keep
her, leaving Callie a ward of the state.

Callie
is placed with a family she has never met before. Now she has to
learn to get along with her new siblings, as well as with her new
strict parents.

That
isn't easy when her new brother has decided, that he doesn't like
her.

The
sad thing is that Callie has always dreamed of having an older
brother. Can she learn to get along with everyone in her new family?

Callie
Part 2

Callie
has been living with her new family for a couple of months now. Her
foster father, Gregory, is giving a seminar about disciplining
children. He decides to take the whole family along. They stay at a
nearby campsite with some of the families attending his workshop.

A
former student of his and her husband, are also attending his
seminar.

Callie,
who is still new to the family, is to eager please them. Their
opinion means a lot to her. Still, she is starting to question their
methods.

Michael
is being very honest, with himself, about his feelings for Callie.

Christmas
Captive

Sarah
is in shock when she and two other waitresses are called into her
boss' office, and accused of stealing. She is even more in shocked
when both of the other girls claim that she is the one who has been
stealing.

Travis
looks at beautiful young Sarah and thinks that maybe with a little
discipline she could turn out, and become a good worker. He informs
her that he wants her to work for him at his house over Christmas so
she can pay him the money she owes him back.

While
a snowstorm rages outside Travis starts having long talks with
Sarah's bare bottomed over his knee, but still she won't confess. He
feels that she just needs more convincing, even if his hand is
already getting very sore. During the day they spend time together
making Christmas cookies and food for the birds but at nighttime he
works on reforming Sarah. Meanwhile both are captives of the blizzard
in his huge log house, high up in the mountains.

Travis
punishes her for stealing, but the truth is, the only thing she
stoled was his heart.

Will
they learn to get along, or will their impasse continue for their
whole stay?

Christmas
Stories (A Collection of Short Stories)

This
is a collection of short stories. Some of them have the couples that
we have already met in my other books. We get to see them celebrating
Christmas. I added a couple of other short stories, which will soon
be sold individually.

The
Stories Include:

Ashley
and Jackson

Dress
Code

Heather
and Craig

Trying
Too Hard

Lizzie
and Luke

Megan
and Michael

Hold
Still

Katherine
and Ryan

Daddy's
Sweetheart

Amelia grew up in
a mansion, where she had to hide from her father, who blamed her for
her mother's death. She grew up longing for attention and love. She
wanted to prove to him that she was worth his love by being the
perfect student.

After her
graduation from her boarding school, she returns home and hopes that
he will be proud of her.

He isn't. He
kicks her out, giving her a week to leave.

Brian, his young
business partner who was present to hear him throw her out, decides
that he should take her in. He wants to mold her into being the
perfect wife – for him. Brian wants his own little girl.

This is a book
about two people getting married, not because they are in love, but
because they are both in need. Brian needs a little girl that looks
up to him and accepts him the way he is. Amelia needs a family to
take interest in her.

Amelia isn't sure
how to react when her husband insists that she have a nanny to care
for her, or when he insists that she calls him 'Daddy'.

Daddy
Sweetheart Part II

Amelia
and Brian are getting ready to go on their Honeymoon. Brian is
worried that this could backfire. He doesn't want to risk losing her.

In
this book he shows that he also has fears and feelings of personal
inadequacy. He doesn't feel normal, but he wants Amelia to think that
their relationship is perfectly normal. He needs her to call him
Daddy.

Daddy
and Amelia get to know each other a lot better. Daddy has great
doubts about Amelia. She isn't fighting this lifestyle at all
anymore. Is she playing games with him?

Amelia
is indeed adjusting to her new life. She loves her Daddy and Nanny
very much. She strives to please them, while telling herself, that
her new life is perfectly normal.

Daddy's
Sweetheart Part III

Amelia
is starting school and making new friends. Sometimes friends can get
you into trouble. Amelia has to learn which friends are best for her.
She and her Daddy, Brian, have been getting along very well.

Amelia
still suffers from low self-esteem. Brian works to help her, but he
still takes his duty of being her Daddy seriously. When she needs it
he disciplines her.

Have
A Heart

Brianna Banks was
born with a heart condition. She has missed so much school that her
grades weren't good enough for her to get into a normal college.

Her father pulled
a few strings to get her into an all girls school for lazy students
with potential. There she meets Scott Green.

It's Scott's job
to make sure that all the girls work up to their full potential.
Unfortunately, no one told him about Brianna's heart condition. This
is a romance book, but we are keeping it a secret from Brianna, who
will first find out in book two that Scott has fallen in love with
her.

I am working on
book three at the moment.

Have
a Heart Part II

Brianna Banks was
born heart sick. The doctors told her parents that she wouldn't live
a month. They fought to keep her alive and raise her with lots of
love and discipline when she needed it.

Brianna is now
nineteen and she is off to her second year of college with her best
friend Cathy.