It was almost a week past Jessica's expected date of delivery and she was agitated. She did not want to show it but she was getting nervous about the situation. Why was it taking so long for the baby to come out? She was eager to meet the baby because she was desperate to know the gender. She had said she wanted a son but Xavier had said he wanted a daughter instead because the baby would look like her and he wanted a mini her. "You can do it" Xavier cheered for her as they climbed the stairs. Climbing up and down became a hassle for her so she decided to love downstairs. She called Ross when her date passed and there was no sign of the baby coming. Although he explained it so well to her she could not help but atoll feel very nervous about it. "Why don't you come to do it yourself?" she snapped at him. She had been very snippy in the past few days and it was a wonder to her how understanding Xavier had been through it all. "Take a deep breath. You have just three more steps to
Xavier had made Jessica complete the exercise and she swore that the only thing that would take her down again was if her water broke and she was ready to go give birth to the baby. "I hate you" she murmured as she pulled the blanket over her legs. "I love you" she shouts back from the closet. "I wonder why you have an unbelievably good hearing" she shouted back to him. He came out with a robe wrapped around him. "I am about to take a shower do you care to join me?" he asked with a wink as he placed his body on the door frame. "I do not," she said in a sharp voice. "Come on" "I do not want to. I am so exhausted from climbing up the stairs"A frown took over Xavier's face before he turned around and said "Do whatever you want"Jessica sighed and lay down on the bed. She was sorry that she kept snapping at him but it was his fault that she was like this. If he had kept his pants on she would not be feeling as if she was carrying a full sack of rice. She closed her eyes to try an
"Xavier get in here" Jessica screamed at the top of her voice. After they had come back from having fun which was Xavier made her do more exercises and she hated it work passion. Coming back home she had decided to refresh and then go to bed because she was not going to do any single exercise again. It seemed as if he was obsessed with the exercise. "Get in here" she screamed again this time a pain shooting through her whole body down her stomach to her legs. "What is it?" Xavier entered with a worried expression and speed in his legs. "My water just broke now" she exclaimed as she watched the trickling drops of liquid down her legs. "Your water?" Xavier asked with a panicked expression. He had been studying so intently and practicing for this moment but being faced with the real situation he could not help but panic. "Stay calm" he finally found his voice to say. "I am calm but you need to be calm because you look terrified," she tells him walking towards him. Seeing his fear
"Do you wish to stay in the delivery room with her?" one of the nurses asked Xavier. It had been over an hour since they had gotten to the hospital and Jessica had been groaning in pain. She had hurled promises of never allowing Xavier to touch her unless he had a vasectomy done. "Yes I do" Jessica had thrown a lot of punches and bites into his skin at him but he still wanted to be there with her all through the process of her birthing their child. "Come this way" Finally, after a long time, the doctor said she was now fully dilated and ready to give birth to the baby. Although she had offered the process of a cesarean section to her she had declined saying she wanted to try and birth the baby. "How are you doing?" Xavier whispered holding on to her face as he walked to her. "The daddy is here," the nurse who brought him in said to the doctor. "We can begin now," the doctor said out loud and everyone nodded as if in agreement with the doctor's order. "Daddy I need you to help
"Joshua?" Jessica asked shocked. Whenever she had wanted to discuss names Xavier had avoided it cunningly so she stopped bringing it up with him and began to think of names for herself. She had come up with names but she did not like any of them. "Yes, his name is your maiden name and his middle name is Papa's name so he is named after him" Xavier explained. "I love it" Jessica replied at hid thoughtfulness to include both families in the naming of the baby. It is dawned on him that he was preparing something like this and that was why he avoided the conversation whenever she brought it up. "I will prepare the certificate. Congratulations once again" the doctor said before filing out of the room with her team. "Let me hold on to him," Jessica said stretching her hand to take the child from Xavier who had been tightly clutching onto the baby and watching his face from time to time. He stretched the baby to her and she took him from him. "I am so glad I had a son" she muttered. "
The week following was all jubilation and joy in the house of the Delgado. The press and bloggers referred to the baby as the silver spoon of the century. While the entire city rejoiced Xavier and Jessica were finding it difficult to keep up with being new parents. Leslie and Brian shared their experiences with them before they had the baby but they thought it was over-told tales as usual. Now that they were experiencing the nonstop tears of their son at night they knew that the stories circulating life about childbirth were true. "Can you please stop crying?" Xavier asked as he took Joshua into his hands. The boy had woken up by two a.m. and had had a full city out session for thirty minutes straight. Jessica had first taken the pain of standing up to get him but now she had come to give him to Xavier because she could not get him to stop. Xavier rocked him for ten minutes before the cries began to subside and stop. "Finally" Xavier murmured as he sat down. "Oh my god, so I am a
TWO YEAR LATER. It was Joshua's second year birthday and Xavier wanted a lavishly extravagant party for him. Jessica was of the opinion that they make it something small with family and friends but Xavier wanted to brag about his son to his partners. Jessica did not see the need to have a lavish birthday for a two-year-old child. They had a lavish party at his first party and it seemed like Xavier was willing to make it a yearly thing. They had a long discussion which almost led to an argument between them. In the end, Jessica succumbed to him to allow peace to reign. It was not going to affect her in any way so she could allow for the party. Xavier had gone through long lengths and given the party planning process to a specialist. The party was too lavish to be called a one year old birthday. It was almost as lavish as the parties that Alicia and Jason threw once in a year now. They said they would make it a thing because they became an item after a party and they might help othe
The party ended when the children could not keep their eyes open for the rest. Brain and Leslie took their children and called it a night while Alicia and Jason promised to continue their party at a bar. The rest of the partners and high-class people who were invited took their children home after making meaningful connections at the party. "You can put Joshua to bed while I go have a rest," Jessica said as she turned back to her husband carrying the boy. "I always have to put him to bed why don't you do so today?" "For many reasons," she told him. "Like?" "For starters, he likes it when you put him to bed and also you are the one who organized this party to tire him out, and then he looks too much like you" she stated. "That's not true" he protested. "It is and the only reason you refuse to admit is because you know it is true""Okay okay, but I am not accepting because I agree. I only want you to go freshen up and wait for me" he said with a wink. "Xavier," Jessica said in a
Hello Guys this is the final chapter. I want to first appreciate everyone who has read this book, who had supported, commented, voted and called me order when I did not update for such a long time. Thank you so much for being such a support in these times. As this work comes to an end I hope you support me in upcoming works. This free Chapter is for you."Joshua we would be late" Aletta screamed from the bottom of the stairs. "Honey are we using our government names now?" Joshua screamed back at her. "Joshua you know I do not like being late for any of these events" Aletta screamed back at him. Altetta paced back and forth at the bottom of the stairs. "You know you should not be screaming while you are this pregnant"Joshua said as he came down the stairs with his daughter in his hands. "If you had come down earlier then I would have had no reason to scream that much" she retorted and he smiled. "It was my little pumpkin here who kept me waiting" Joshua replied as he got to stand b
"I am so happy for you, this is finally happening," Aletta said holding the arms of Jeanne excited."I am excited but also nervous very nervous does anyone have calming pills?" Jeanne said slipping her hands off Aletta's hand and feeling the sweat on her palm."Calm down, it's just you and Thiago, everyone else is just like a rock. I promise you once you get on that altar every of that nervousness would be gone" Aletta continued. "Thank you," Jeanne said sarcastically."Are you nervous because its mu brother? I can help you run away from this right now" Nichole suggested and Alethea rolled her eyes. "Are all sisters this way? This was the same advice you gave Aletta the other day" Alethea said and Jeanne shook her head. "How can I leave, I have been dreaming of this day" Jeanne replied. "Then calm down even though I don't know why you would dream of marrying my brother but we all choose our battles I guess" Nichole shrugged as she sat down."Nichole" Aletta chastised because she k
"You have to get to work" Aletta said rubbing the hand of Joshua gently. They had arrived back from their honeymoon over the weekend and this Monday morning was the first time Joshua was going back to work after the wedding."Can't I just lay down here with you all day?" he said taking out her hand and pulling her down to his level."You kept saying that and prolonged the honeymoon by two weeks,""Call me a criminal for wanting to spend time with my wife, I am getting the feeling that you do not want to spend any time with me" Joshua said opening one eye and giving her a judging look. "Joshua, you know that is not true, so get up now""You are no longer my assistant, you are supposed to be begging me to stay a bit more with you""What makes you think I don't want to do that?" Aletta asked taking his dishevelled morning hair back from his face."Because you keep urging me to get back to work so quickly, it's like you can't wait to get rid of me" Joshua took his head back to the pillow
"Mom don't cry again, you might get a serious headache at this rate," Aletta said rubbing the back of her mother while in a hug. The entire wedding was over already and the whole family was seeing the couple off as they were going directly to the airport for their honeymoon. "Come on, at this rate they might miss their flight" Leon said trying to pull Eunice off her daughter. She had been bawling the entire ceremony, if someone saw her they would think it was a sad occasion. "My daughter," Eunice said as she finally pulled away and took a step back. "I am so happy and so proud of you because you managed or find love for yourself even after everything" Eunice sniffled and smiled. "Thank you, Mom," Aletta said with a smile. "You better get going now" Jessica said stepping forward."We are on our way now" Joshua said pulling open the door and gesturing for Aletta to get in."Call us when you get there" Jessica called after the shut door."Do not call us" Xavier said as if he was giv
"I was always unsure about how I felt about you, You were always around me, taking care of me and I felt anxious whenever you were out of sight. A little secret that was the reason I always made you work overtime even when it was not necessary" Joshua said and there was a burst of small laughter across the room.They were both standing in from of the priest and altar but they had decided to take their custom written vows there. Joshua cleared his throat and looked up from his paper to stare at Aletta whose eyes never left his face. He flashed a small warm mile to her and she returned it."I never realized my feelings for you until you made that drunken confession that night that caused us to go into a relationship. I had always thought about marriage but for me, it was the only way for me to make children that would take over the company one day, being with you makes me so excited to think of waking up every morning with you by my side, I think of planting kisses on your lips and spend
"Are you feeling nervous?" Alethea asked Aletta who was sitting in the waiting room with her shaky hands. "Yes I am, who wouldn't be?" Aletta asked as she closed her eyes to steady her breath. "I mean you are very right, who would like to marry my annoying brother, as much as I would like to call you my sister in law I can help you escape if you wish to" Jeanne chimed in. "Thank you so much for the suggestion, I am nervous about this and not rethinking my decision. I can't wait to be married to him" Aletta said as her eyes shot open. "Ew" Jeanne said as she gaged. " What do you see in him?" she added as she picked at her nails. "Everything I want to see" Aletta added. "Jeanne stop trying to put ideas in her head" Jessica cautioned coming towards them. "What did I do?" Jeanne whined."I heard what you said" Jessica replied giving Jeanne a warning look. Jesica knew that her daughter was playing around but she did not want Aletta taking any of the words to heart. "I know I have s
"Mom's boyfriend would be here soon," Alethea said as she dropped the dish in her hand to the table. "I can not believe that I am being made to meet my mom's boyfriend at her age" "What I can not believe is that she can't order out but is making us to make food for him"Alethea whined as she moved back to the kitchen."What is even more crazy is that she is in a relationship again" Aletta exclaimed as she moved behind Alethea. "Don't get me wrong I guess I am glad she is finding love again" "Same here, if she is happy then there is no issue. Love is in the air" Aleteha added coming back to the table "So why don't you have anyone to share the love with?" Aletta asked. They were making the last trip from the kitchen to the table. "Says you? Who told you that I do not have someone to share this love with?" Alethea said dragging out her sentence and a weird smile climbing her face."Alethea you are hiding something from me" Aletta said going to clutch her sister's hand. "Spill now" sh
Aletta and Joshua tried to reach Anette and Richard but it was as if they had fallen off the radar. "At least we tried" Aletta said as she set down the phone to the table. "Happy now?" Joshua asked and she nodded. "I guess I have to get going now" she said taking up her phone from the table."Where to? You just got here" Joshua was sad because they had finalized her resignation and she had not been around him like he wanted her to be. He was happy regardless that she was doing what she loved. "I have to go finalize things with HR on hiring your new assistant and then I have to go shopping with your mom and sister" Aletta explained. "Can we at least have dinner together?" Joshua asked and started expressing shock when he saw the expression on her face. "We can not? I barely see you anymore these days" he whined like a child who was cheated of having any ice cream. "I am having dinner with my family, mom is introducing her boyfriend to us today and honestly, I love spending time wi
"Did you hear about Anette?" Aletta asked as she pushed the jar of pickles into the hands of Joshua. They had picked a date for the wedding and it was in three weeks. They were having one of the date nights where they stayed back home and cooked for each other. "What happened to her?" Joshua asked. Anette shook her head in bewilderment, how could this man be so oblivious to everything happening around him?"Have you seen her in a while?" Aletta asked. She wanted to know how much he did not know. "Well, since that day she came to our house, I did not think much of it when I did not see her again," Joshua said truthfully before taking off the lid of the jar. "But you know she called off her wedding and left the country so abruptly with Richard?" Aletta asked hoping that he at least knew about that fact. Yes, Anette did hurt them all but it would be too mean to not care about her when she had sincerely apologized."Maybe they did not want the wedding again?" Joshua asked shrugging. Al