One Special Moment - Brenda Jackson [91]
She got up and walked over to where he stood looking out the window. She knew he was thinking hard about what she had just told him about Angeline. His mind was in turmoil and she intended to soothe it in a very special way.
She curled her arms around him. “Sterling?”
“Umm?”
“Are we through talking yet?”
He turned around and slowly smiled at her and took her into his arms, bringing her closer to him. “Yes, sweetheart, we are.”
She returned his smile with a seductive one of her own. “Good, let’s go to bed.”
Sterling and Colby had just finished making love again when the sun rose to a brilliant hue over the top of the mountains, announcing it was a brand-new day. They lay in each other’s arms, happy with the love they shared for each other and at the moment, completely drained of any strength to do anything but wait to revamp their energy.
“How much longer will it be before you know something?”
Colby smiled as she entwined herself deeper into Sterling’s arms. She knew specifically what he was talking about. “I could find out today. I’m a day late already.”
“You don’t have to find out on my account,” Sterling said, smiling happily at her. “My son will be born sometime next March.”
Colby chuckled. “You think so?”
Sterling grinned. “Yes, nine months from June is March.”
She shook her head. “I’m not talking about the timing. I’m talking about the baby’s sex. You still think Hamiltons can’t have girls?”
“Yes.”
“All right then, are you willing to make a deal?”
Sterling raised a brow. “What kind of deal?”
“If I have a girl, I want a lifetime of special moments from you.”
“Baby, you’ll get those regardless of whether we have a son or a daughter.” He pulled her closer into his arms. “I want to thank you for giving me the most precious gift I’ve ever had.”
Colby looked up at him. “And what was that?”
He met the question in her eyes with a serious expression in his own. He reached out and took her hand and brought it to his lips. “That one special moment, the day you became my wife. God must have known I needed someone like you in my life and sent you to me. I will always believe that and cherish that.”
Threading his fingers through her hair, he caught a loose part with his fist and gently lifted her head to give him easy access to her mouth. He loved this woman and he would make sure that for the rest of her life she got all the special moments she deserved.
Epilogue
“Chandler is crying, Sterling,” Colby said sleepily. “It’s feeding time.”
Sterling came immediately awake. Unlike most people, he enjoyed these two o’clock feedings. It was a special time to bond with his child.
He padded in his bare feet across the hall to the nursery where Chandler Hamilton was crying. Reaching down he picked up his child.
Colby had refused to take a sonogram during her pregnancy to determine the sex of their child. “Some things should remain a surprise,” she had said. And Chandler’s entrance into the world had been totally that for him.
Up until the time the doctor had uncovered her in front of his eyes to prove that his wife had indeed given birth to a girl, he had been so sure she was having a boy.
It wasn’t that he had preferred a son over a daughter, it was just that he’d actually thought he couldn’t produce a female offspring. He and Colby had brought the era of all male Hamiltons to an end with the bundle of joy he held in his arms.
And she was indeed a bundle of joy to everyone, especially to her grandmother Angeline and her uncle Nicholas. Sterling smiled when he thought about the growing close relationship between himself, his mother and his brother. And now that Chandler was born, Angeline’s and Nicholas’s visits to North Carolina were rather frequent.
He gazed down at his daughter. She was simply beautiful. He would have to get his shotgun ready in sixteen years when she began dating. Unless, however, the young man