Forever Mine - Chapter 25

“Do you know what day it is?” Benjamin asked Isabella teasingly as he bent his head to kiss her on her lips.

She was in his late mother’s rose garden, which they had turned into a safe play area for the children, and Benjamin had just returned from a business meet, out of state.

“Ofcourse I do remember” she said laughing and kissed him back.

Out of the corner of her eye, she could see the children playing.

Seven year old Juliana, Elena and Julian’s daughter had come over to play.

Their twin daughters, who had been born eighteen months ago was there, and ofcourse – her secret favourite – Sapphire, who was firmly preventing the twins from fighting over the toys.

Like all children, theirs were individual and unique, and that was how she loved them, individually and uniquely, just as she could love the new baby who was due to make his or her arrival in another four months’ time.

The new baby was not planned. But he had come along and that was a happy accident. They would love the new addition nevertheless.

But Sapphire would always be extra special to her, just as the bond of love between them was extra special.

When she had risked her own life to protect Sapphire’s Isabella had reacted as a mother, putting her child’s safety before her own.

And somehow in that split heartbeat of time a bond had been forged between the two of them that was just as strong as the umbilical cord that had bonded her to her birth children.

Whenever strangers remarked on how alike she and Sapphire were, they always shared knowing special smiles.

No mother should have favourites, but sometimes a mother could just not help herself!

“So? What date is it?” Benjamin demanded with a smile.

“The date on which you impulsively declared to Mrs Fort that I’m your fiance. The date you asked me to marry you” Isabella replied promptly, laughing as she added wickedly “For Sapphire’s sake.”

“For Sapphire’s sake” Benjamin agreed wryly.

“And the best decision I have ever made” Benjamin added, releasing her as Sapphire left the twins to their own devices and ran across to join them, lovingly cuddling into Isabella’s side.

“I hope this isn’t going to be more twins” she told Isabella feelingly as she patted her growing bump.

Isabella laughed.

Both she and Benjamin already knew that the baby she was carrying was a son. They had travelled abroad for a business meet, where Benjamin suggested that they could know the gender of the baby if they want.

But that was going to be their secret.

“I think it’s time to take the twins upstairs for their nap” Isabella told Benjamin as she hugged Sapphire lovingly.

“Mmm” Benjamin agreed, watching as Emerald attempted to hit her twin with the doll she had wrestled from her. “I think I’ll come with you.”

“Oh, you two aren’t going to get all soppy, are you?” Sapphire protested, rolling her eyes in seven-year-old disgust.

“Mmm. Sounds like a good idea to me” Benjamin murmured to Isabella as they watched her run back to join Juliana.

“And to me” Isabella agreed softly.

If someone, anyone, had tried to tell her five years ago just how her life was going to turn out she would never have believed them, never have dared to believe she could be so loved or so happy…

But she was, and according to Benjamin he fully intended to make sure that she remained so for the rest of their lives together!

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Benjamin watched, as his girls slept, all cuddled against one another.

They had taken the twins up for a nap. Emerald and Ruby, their eighteen month old twin girls, had created a fuss before going down for the said nap.

It is really very rare that the two of them go to sleep at the same time. Usually, one stays awake while the other sleeps. That way, they get to sleep very rarely.

Now, that the twins had fallen asleep together, Isabella decided to take advantage of the situation and laid down with them. Sapphire had joined the lot sooner and now his girls are in a peaceful slumber and be could watch on for however long he wants and wouldn’t get bored.

He had lost his sister and in return, God had given him this lovely family.

They were planning to look into new properties instead of moving back into his penthouse suite, when his parents suggested that they stay on here.

Instead, his parents moved into his old penthouse. But they visited atleast four days a week. Isabella’s parents too dropped by every week, to spend time with their grandchildren.

Alessandro had recently got married to Hayley Locason. Hayley was Sapphire’s nursery school teacher, whom Alessandro met two years ago, when he had gone to drop Sapphire at school one fine day.

After that day, Alessandro had kept on insisting to drop his favorite niece off to school. Soon they fell in love and they got married recently.

Sapphire and Juliana had forged a strong bond so very much like that of Benjamin and Julian.

And the evil named Lillian that lurked in their life five years ago was completely removed from their life.

Now retired Gabriel, the legal advisor, used all his power and locked the woman away for good.

Kidnapping of two people warranted two seven year sentences. And attempted murder of the same two gave her two life imprisonment. And in total her imprisonment will be for thirty eight years. Plus the fine, which her living son refused to pay, added another year to rot in the prison.

The woman, who was already fifty plus, will most probably die in the prison. And nobody could care even a little. She deserved that.

With a smile on his face, he climbed on the bed and laid beside his girls.

Forever Mine, his heart whispered as he looked at his girls.

A/n

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