Chapter 21

Three years later…

This was utterly ridiculous thought Olivia.

I cannot believe people do this more than once in lifetime. What kind of crazy did you have to be to subject yourself to this for more than once in your life?

She felt her belly tighten again and within a minute the pain was peaking and she was yelling again. At Fitz.

"This is all your fault, you bastard. If you think we are ever doing this again you got another thing coming!" she thought back with a frown at the delusional times she and Fitz had talked about children. Two babies they had thought. Two babies; a nice even number.

Well that little fantasy needed to be shelved. One baby, that's all he got.

One. Baby.

As the pain rolled over her she had only one thought. That bastard, he did this to me!

Fitz sat on a chair in front of Olivia supporting her arms as she sat and rocked on a birthing ball. The damn thing was supposed to be help relieve pressure on her pelvis. It was not fucking working! She wanted a refund! As soon as this thing popped out she was heading to Bed Bath and Beyond to get a refund.

Give me my twelve dollars back you motherfucking liars!

The tightening started again and she glared at Fitz. Fitz looked back helplessly.

Fitz was a man in hell. He forced himself not to recoil and run from the virago that had taken over his beautiful wife. Damn right they were not doing this again! He had been so focused on the joy of Olivia giving birth to his son, he hadn't taken time to consider how much pain she would be in during labor. Seeing Olivia in this much pain was breaking his heart.

"I am so sorry baby, I would do anything for you; I hate to see you in so much pain, I wish I could take it for you" he soothed.

The midwife who had been in the room winced as soon as Fitz finished speaking. He looked over at her and she shook her head and silently mouthed the word no to Fitz; but it was too late. Oliva had heard him.

"If you don't want to watch me be in pain then maybe you can leave. I can deliver the baby by my damn self. Do you have to be such a fucking man?" she growled in a deep guttural voice he didn't recognize.

He didn't need an OB/GYN. He needed a freaking exorcist.

Three hours later Olivia delivered. The baby was seven pounds eight ounces and he was absolutely beautiful. Later in the day the Grant family sat and looked as Olivia held the latest member of their family.

Theodore "Teddy" John Grant.

Olivia held his tiny hand and felt overcome with an emotion that was petrifying due to its intensity. Her baby. Her and Fitz's baby…the tears run unchecked down her face as she stared down at him and rocked him. She turned and grabbed a hold of Fitz behind the neck and brought his face to hers. Their foreheads touched as they looked at the tiny marvel in Olivia's arms.

Jerry and Karen looked on moved by the scene. Karen cried openly; Jerry trying to be a man about it and kept gulping trying to keep his emotion contained. He lost the battle.

There wasn't a dry eye in the room.

The nurse came by later and took Teddy off to the nursery. Olivia didn't want to let him out of her arms but she finally gave him over reluctantly.

As soon as the nurse was out of the room, she turned to Fitz and said

"I am serious Fitz, I am not doing that again. Teddy is the only baby you and I are having. Three Kids is enough. Jerry, Karen and Teddy are all we need. Agreed?"

Fitz nodded

"Agreed"

She fell back on the bed and closed her eyes. She was glad he had agreed. She didn't want to fight the big lug.

Two years later Maya Elizabeth Grant was born…and three years after that came Eli Dane Grant.

Five years after the birth of Eli Dane Grant…

"We are going to be late" Fitz said glaring at Olivia

"Then we are late, Fitz! You don't harangue a bride on her wedding day about the time"

Fitz was about to respond when the bedroom door opened and Karen walked out.

His heart stopped. She looked beautiful. He felt the moisture gathering in his eyes.

"You look beautiful honey"

She smiled at him nervously "Thanks dad"

She smiled and turned towards where Olivia and Trixie were standing and asked

"Well?"

Olivia and Trixie stood silently. They wept as they looked at the vision before them. They were both assailed with images of Karen as a little girl and they tried to reconcile those memories with the confident poised woman who stood before them.

"I don't think I have ever seen anything so beautiful in my life" Trixie said. She moved forward and wrapped her daughter in a hug. Taking care not to wrinkle the very expensive Alexander McQueen wedding dress.

"Thanks mom. You all have to stop crying, if you don't I am going to start and ruin my makeup" Karen said sternly looking at all three of them.

They all nodded; Fitz, Trixie and Olivia. There was no way in hell they were going to be able to keep that promise.

They all headed down the stairs and out the doors to the waiting cars. Fitz wanting the best for Karen, had hired a fleet of Rolls Royce Silver Clouds to transport the family and the bridal party to the church.

Fitz and Karen were in one car while the rest of the family got into another. The remaining two cars in the fleet transported various bridesmaids and groomsmen.

The ceremony was beautiful and the wedding reception ended up being a rambunctious affair. Karen and her groom were only twenty-two so the whole thing turned into one big bash with people dancing late into the night. Around one in the morning Karen and her now husband, Christian had said their goodbyes and taken off in the silver cloud.

Fitz and Olivia headed home soon after. They got home around two in the morning, stopped by to check on the children who had been brought home hours ago by the nanny and then headed off to bed.

"I still think she is too young" Fitz said as he pulled off his dress shirt and cuff links

"She is young, but she has a good head on her shoulders. She is years ahead of her peers. She'll be okay Fitz. I just know it" Olivia said as she walked up to him and offered him her back so that he could unzip her.

Fitz lowered the zipper and Olivia made a move to walk away but she was quickly grabbed back into his arms.

"You looked beautiful today" he whispered huskily into her ear. She smiled and turned into his arms. "You didn't look half bad yourself"

She loved seeing Fitz all dressed up in formal wear. It turned her on something bad.

He reached down and placed a kiss on her lips which quickly escalated. Twenty minutes later Olivia lay flat on her back moaning while Fitz moved powerfully inside her.

She came first and Fitz quickly followed. Emptying himself inside her until he felt drained of even his blood. Livvie did that to him.

Fitz rolled off liv and pulled her into his side. He thought back over his life. The tough years with Mellie, finding out about Karen's kidnapping…He had suffered a lot of strife in his life. However, as the happy years passed by now with Olivia and the kids he knew that it had all been part of a grand master plan. There was no way he could have appreciated the little slice of heaven that was his life without all the pain that come before.

Olivia sensing his contemplative mood raised her head up off his shoulders.

"Anything you want to share?" she asked her hand moving up and down his chest in a soothing motion.

He nodded and smiled at her fiendishly.

Uh-oh thought Olivia. She was in trouble

"Ceiling or Floor?" Fitz said

Olivia floundered "What?"

"Ceiling or floor Olivia, pick a view" he said again

Confused she shook her head at him trying to get him to clarify. She opened her mouth to speak but before she could speak he had picked her up and rolled her beneath him. He pulled her legs around his midriff and dropped a quick kiss on her lips.

"Ceiling" he said and then threw a glance up. He then rolled over taking her with him so she straddled him "or floor; pick a view Livvie. So, I know how you want me to fuck you" he pulled her down and ate at her mouth. Olivia moaned and rode the hard bulge positioned oh so perfectly between her legs.

She pulled back from the kiss and smiled down at Fitz

"Surprise me" she rocked her hips into his cock and Fitz closed his eyes at the sensation and then slowly opened them to look into her eyes. She loved seeing the heat reflected in those beautiful steel grey eyes.

Fitz rolled over and made love to Livvie again and again until the sun came up.

They finally fell asleep but not before saying it like they did every night and would for years to come

"Love you Livvie"

"Love you more Fitz"