Epilogue

Eight months later-

Lester's POV

Steph waddled out to the deck of our beach house. I was grilling steaks and hamburgers. She kissed me. "Hi baby."

"Hi to you baby. How is our guy?"

"Busy and he's hungry." I chuckled.

She waddled over to Ranger's lounge chair and plopped down.

"Hey Babe. How's our boy?"

"Good, he's busy today." Ranger kissed her little belly and gave her a wicked smile. Then he grabbed her and blew raspberries all over her belly as she giggled and tried to get away from him. He caught her, held her face and kissed her. She put her fingers through his hair and told him how much she loved him.

Ranger was like a different man since we had become a family. He was happy and smiled a lot these days. My cousin had gradually become Carlos the man over these few months and permanently tucked away some of his worst demons. Steph was good for both us. She had more than enough love in her big heart to sustain us. When we started this, we didn't know that she would be more than our lover and our life. She had become our savior and rescued us from ourselves and our past. She would always be our strength and the matriarch of this unusual family.

We were happy and had decided that we wanted children after about a month together. Two months later, we were all impatiently waiting for the stick in front of us to say plus one or minus one. It was plus one. We didn't know which one of us had made this happen and we didn't care. We were all so happy we just went straight to making plans for our baby and the future.

It had been interesting these last few months. We had gone through the morning or anytime sickness with her, the hormones and mood swings. Ranger and I had gone to two different book stores and bought every book we could find on pregnancy and come up with a combat strategy. He would read the ones about the pregnant woman and I would read the ones for the new fathers to be. We had shopped with her and bought furniture and decorated every house we owned for the new baby. We had painted together, decorated together and laughed together. Our intimacy, our bond was solid and permanent.

The three of us in the OBGYN's office one day had been fun. The doctor and the ultrasound technician had been a little uncomfortable and a little curious about two men's enthusiasm at knowing what sex the child would be. When we found out that it was a boy, we went crazy with pride and excitement. We had decided that after he was born that we would find out who had fathered the little guy and after a while the next one up would get a little more unprotected sex time with our woman. All of us decided that we wanted a girl too.

After she was pregnant for a couple months and highly hormonal, she got the brave bug one Sunday and we all went to dinner at the Plum's house. She proudly announced to her family that she was pregnant and that she was in a relationship with us both, that we were a family and that she was happier than she had ever dreamed. She let them know that they could accept her choice and have a relationship with her children or not. Her Grandmother was happy for her. Her mother and father reluctantly agreed to accept it for the sake of the grandchildren. Turns out loyalty to the grand babies was a big part of the Burg creed too.

I couldn't help but grin. Seems like we all did a lot of that these day. In a little bit she came over to me and wrapped her sweet arms around my waist and smiled up at me. I leaned down and kissed her. "I love you Les."

"Love you too baby. You're my girl." I looked at her glowing face and was more fulfilled than I ever dreamed in my life and we would always be a family and Steph would never want for anything, be hurt or be alone again. There was enough love here to sustain a lifetime.

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