One Special Moment - Brenda Jackson [92]
Sterling’s smile widened. He and Colby would have to do a lot of overtime to catch up with the Garwood clan. “But we can do it if we try, can’t we, Chandler?” he cooed to his daughter.
“Do what?” Colby asked, coming into the room. Since she was still breast-feeding, the two o’clock feedings could not be done without her. Like Sterling, she also enjoyed this special time with their daughter.
She looked at her husband. He looked so good shirtless and wearing only his sexy, boxer-style, silk underwear. He was one very sexy man, and now that Wingate Cosmetics’ ads for Awesome were everywhere, everyone knew what she had always known…Sterling Hamilton was awesome.
The advertisement featuring him had taken the country by storm and Wingate’s sales for its newest cologne had skyrocketed beyond their wildest dream. It seemed that all women everywhere wanted their men to wear Awesome. But Colby knew she had the real awesome man.
“What can we do if we try?” Colby asked Sterling again.
He smiled at her. “Have just as many babies as the Garwoods.”
Colby frowned. “Don’t even think it, Sterling Hamilton. No one can have as many babies as Kyle and Kimara, and I don’t even plan on trying,” she said, taking their child from his arms. Chandler was barely four months old and already her husband was thinking about having others. And so was her brother. He was trying hard to convince Cynthia that James Jr. needed a sister.
“What about a Garwood-Hamilton wedding sometime in the future?” he asked his wife. “And then if we have another daughter, she can marry Jake and Diamond’s son. I like the idea of a Madaris-Hamilton match one day.”
Colby lifted a brow. Evidently Sterling thought he was pretty good at putting marriages together since he’d done a fairly good job of putting theirs together. “Jake and Diamond don’t have a son, Sterling.”
“Not yet they don’t. But hopefully, they’ll get their act together soon enough. Neither of them is getting any younger.”
Sterling watched as Colby breast-fed their child and a deep feeling of love and pride washed over him. He leaned down and kissed her lips. “Do you know what I think?” he asked, smiling.
“No, what do you think, Sterling?”
“I think you’re more valuable than the most precious gem, and that you satisfy all my needs.”
A smile formed on Colby’s lips with Sterling’s compliment. “And you, my darling husband, have surpassed Denzel in my book, and as a man I think you’re totally awesome.” Her eyes darkened from the heat she saw radiating in his gaze.
“I also think if we’re not careful and behave ourselves, we just might catch up with the Garwoods,” she whispered seductively.
He laughed. “At least we have plenty of room up here on our mountain.”
She grinned. Although they visited their home in California often, this place, here in the mountains of North Carolina, was what they truly considered home. “Yes, we do have plenty of room up here, don’t we?”
Colby reached out and let her fingers lightly trace the masculine lines of Sterling’s face. “I love you.”
He inhaled her fragrance. Her scent was unmistakably…Colby. “And I love you, sweetheart. Always.”
ONE SPECIAL MOMENT
An Arabesque novel published by Kimani Press/March 2008
First published by Kensington Publishing Corp. in 1998
ISBN: 978-1-4268-1399-3
Copyright © 1998 by Brenda Streater Jackson
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