Page 68 of Her Bachelor Cowboy Billionaire

Roark entered the room and came over to her. He leaned down and kissed her forehead. “How are you?”

She looked up at him and thought he looked like a hot doctor in the scrubs. “I’m sweaty and in pain. How do you think I am?”

“I know how you are and you can yell at me as much as you want. Doctor Murtaugh said you would want to.” He took her right hand in his. “Squeeze my hand if it helps.”

Just then another pain did hit, and she squeezed his hand as hard as she could. She wanted to push so badly.

The doctor sat at the bottom of the bed, which was open with no footboard. Then Doctor Gable lowered the back a little and raised the foot a little.

“Jessica, you’re at ten centimeters, and I need you to push now. Push hard. Let’s get this baby out to meet its parents.”

Less than an hour later, Colin Ross Sullivan was born.

The doctor laid him on Jessica’s belly while the umbilical cord finished pulsing. When it was done, the doctor clamped off the cord and then cut it. After which they took him, weighed him—eight pounds and three ounces—and cleaned him.

A nurse brought him back, swaddled tight and with a little blue stocking cap on his head.

Jessica immediately unwrapped him and checked under his little hat. He had lots of curly coal black hair. She put his hat back on.

He was beautiful. The most beautiful baby she’d ever seen. He was long—twenty-one inches—but he was a good weight and so wasn’t skinny like some babies are.

“Oh, Roark. Look at him, he’s so…so perfect. How did we make such a perfect little being?”

Roark kissed the top of her head.

She tipped her head back and looked at him, her heart full of love for him and now for Colin.

He kissed her lips. “Thank you.”

“For what?”

Roark had a small smile, and yet she’d never seen him more serious. “For marrying me and making me the happiest man alive. And then, when I thought I could never be happier than we were, you gave me this handsome little part of you and me who I don’t think I could love more than I do.” He kissed her again. “Thank you.”

“Oh, Roark.” She reached up and cupped his beloved face. “I should be the one thanking you. You made me whole…at least I thought you did, but now…” she looked down at Colin. “Now, I think this little man has made us both whole. And you’re right. I don’t think I could love him more than I do, but I know I will. Just as I love you more today than yesterday.”

The nurses were all still there. One cleaning equipment used in the birth. Another cleaning the equipment used to clean and weigh Colin.

The doctor was there delivering the afterbirth.

Jessica knew this because of the research she’d done for her new contemporary western series.

Roark laid one arm across the top of the bed and, dwwwwwwith the other, he reached down and cupped her cheek. “I do you, too.”

Suddenly, a tiny cry sounded.

She looked down into Colin’s little face, which was all screwed up and angry. “I think he’s hungry.”

A nurse appeared. “Do you need help nursing the first time?”

Jessica laughed. “I don’t know. It’s the first time.”

Roark chuckled.

The nurse did, too.

“Okay, while you feed him, I’ll get you all cleaned up. First, though, let’s get him started nursing. I want you to put him in the crook of your elbow with his head close to your nipple. Then I want you to rub his lips with your nipple and encourage him a little until he latches on. It’s instinctive for him to nurse, so you should just have to tease him and get him started.”

Jessica did what she said and teased him.