WolfeHeart: de Wolfe Pack Generations, page 29
When he arrived in the lavish and warm chamber, it was to his own mother’s smiling face. Brighton de Wolfe hugged her enormous son, pulling the physic and her daughters from the chamber so that he could be alone with his new family. When the door was shut and the room was still, Markus crept up on the bed to find Amabella lying there, nursing the dark-haired infants, one on each breast.
Markus couldn’t help it; the tears came.
“Oh… Ama,” he murmured. “Look at them. They are magnificent.”
Amabella smiled up at her emotional husband. “Sit next to us,” she said softly. “Allow me to introduce you to your sons, querida. We hoped for one and were blessed with two.”
Markus sat on the edge of the bed, looking down at the contented infants. He reached out a timid hand, gently touching the one nearest him.
“They are beautiful,” he said. Then, his gaze moved to her. “As are you. At this very moment, you are the most beautiful creature I’ve ever seen.”
Reaching out, he took her hand, kissing it reverently. Amabella touched his face, watching him as he kissed her palm.
“Are you well?” she asked. “You look a bit pale.”
He laughed softly. “I am fine,” he said. “Now that I know you are well, I am perfectly fine. But I will admit I was nervous.”
Amabella laughed softly, looking down at the infants tugging on her breasts. “Truth be told, I was a little, too,” she said. “These two were happy and content in my belly. It took a while to coax them out.”
“That is what my mother said.”
Amabella snorted. “She has had twins twice,” she said. “I have no idea how she managed such a thing. Once is enough for me.”
“My mother is a strong woman.”
“She is,” Amabella agreed. “But you and I did not expect two sons and we only selected one name.”
Markus grinned. “Not to worry,” he said. “Magnus has taken care of that, as I told you he would. He insists that the first born be called Magnar and I have agreed. It would make an old man happy.”
“Magnar,” Amabella repeated, rolling it over her tongue. “I like that. Magnar and his brother, Mateo, after my own grandfather.”
“As the great-grandsons of a Norse king, England’s greatest knight, and Aragon royalty, they will be the finest knights the world has yet to see,” Markus said. Then, he bent down so that he was peering at the infants. “It is an awesome legacy you bear, Magnar Patrick and Mateo Alonzo. Through you, great men will live on.”
Amabella watched him as he spoke to the babies, reaching out to hold Markus’ hand tightly. “They are the sons of Markus de Wolfe,” she said. “Through them, you shall live on, too. There is no question that their legacies shall be the greatest England has yet to see.”
Markus leaned over her, kissing her sweetly, tenderly, as the infants nursed. To see the results of their powerful love was enough to bring tears to his eyes again. He’d only heard of such contentment, told by men he had, at times, considered fools. Surely no man could be content with a woman to love and children at his feet. Men needed glory and warfare, properties and wealth in order to be truly happy.
At least, that’s what he’d thought, once.
But Markus had come to realize that true contentment did indeed come from things that all of the money in the world couldn’t buy. Through the children now dozing off against his wife’s bare breasts, Markus knew that he’d found the greatest contentment of all.
The power of love.
The man with the heart as big as a wolf had found his noblest destiny.
* THE END *
Children of Markus and Amabella
Atlas (formerly de Sauque, now Abril)
Aleanor (de Sauque – de Wolfe)
Alphonse (de Sauque – de Wolfe)
Ambra (de Sauque – de Wolfe)
Magnar & Mateo
Gaetan
Thor
Angelia
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