UNDYING: A Bad Boy MMA Romance (Midwest Alphas) (Book 3) (37 page)

His face turns white. “Umm…” he mutters.

“Give her here…” My mother opens her arms.

“No fair!” Ava snaps. “I want to hold her.”

“Ladies…” Hawthorne steps in behind my mother. “I’m sure everyone will get a turn.”

My mother pushes her hands closer to me. “Yes, but I’m Piper’s mother. I get first dibs.”

“But
I’m
Kai’s mother,” Ava argues. “I have just as much right to first dibs as you do.”

“How about…” I say. I look at my father and slowly extend my arms. “Dad, you go first.”

He takes a quick step forward to stand next to Ava. “I’d be honored, Piper,” he says. The room falls silent as I pass her off to him. He carefully cradles my daughter in his arms and I see a vision of the past in front of me. I look at my mother and she sees it, too. “We need to find you a tiny Belle Academy sweater, don’t we?” he asks her.

“Ahh, jeez…” I mutter.

“It’s never too early to get a child interested in education,” he says.

Kai shakes his head. “I can’t even try to think that far ahead right now…”

“Don’t blink, buddy,” Hawthorne tells him. “It’ll be here before you know it.”

Ava stares at the baby over my father’s shoulder. “Now,” she says, quickly wiping her eyes, “can we please find out what you’ve named the darn thing?”

Everyone chuckles and their eyes fall on me. Kai moves in closer to stand by me. “Paris,” I say. “We’ve named her Paris.”

“Oh…” Ava coos. “That’s
beautiful
.”

“Another P. No surprise there,” Hawthorne jokes.

My mother lays her hand on mine. “It suits her,” she says. I catch her look up at Kai and she shoots him a quick, knowing wink.

“Yeah,” he says, clearing his throat. “We thought so.”

“Who gets to hold her next?” Ava asks with impatience.

I hold up my hands. “I’ll let you guys fight it out,” I laugh. My mother, Ava, and Hawthorne converge on my father, each one looking to get quality time with their grandchild. Shawn and Mandy step around them to stand next to Kai as he takes my hand.

“Jeez, you look like crap,” Shawn says to me, smirking with delight.

“Shawn—”
Kai snaps.

I chuckle. “It’s fine. I know what he means.”

“Yeah she does,” Shawn quips.

“Just for the record,” Kai says, “I really dislike you two having inside jokes.”

“So…” Mandy leans in. “Did it hurt as much as they say it does? I’m asking
for a friend
.”

“Please tell her it’s awful,” Shawn begs. “Don’t encourage this.”

“It’s
awful
,” I answer, “but worth every second.”

Mandy beams. “Good to know.” She winks at Shawn and he glares at me.

I lay back against the thick pillow and stare across the room at the tiny bundle in my mother’s arms. “Every second…” I whisper.

“All right…” Kai announces. He steps away from the bed and holds out his hands. “Mommy and baby are exhausted and need some rest.”

My mother smiles as she lays the baby in his arms. She steps across the room to me and kisses my head. “I’ll be back in the morning,” she says. “I’m pretty sure we all will…”

“Damn right!” Ava shouts. “Oops— sorry. Don’t repeat that,” she tells the baby. She kisses her fingers as she passes by Kai towards the door.

“Goodnight, everybody,” I say as I wave to them.

They all pile outside and Kai closes the door behind them.

“Look at you,” I tell him.

“What?” he asks with a smile.

“All demanding and assertive,” I joke.

“Like a daddy?” he asks.

I nod. “Yeah, like a daddy.”

He looks at his daughter in his arms. “Who’s your daddy, Paris?”

I stare at him. “Never say that
ever
again.”

Kai laughs and leans in to lay her in my arms. “Yeah, that felt weird.” He sits on the bed and throws his arm around me as he lies down beside us.

I rest my head on his shoulder. “She really is perfect, isn’t she?”

“Yeah,” he whispers, “but I’m a little biased.”

“This kid has no chance of being normal, does she?” I ask, my smiling eyes locked on her sleeping face.

“Probably not,” Kai answers. “But what’s so great about normal?”

I look at him and he kisses me softly.

THE END

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