Chapter Epilogue
Over Six Years Later
"Jasmine is a very sweet girl, but she is stubborn beyond belief." Mrs. Tilly, Jasmine's first-grade teacher, complains in the PTA meeting that Sabrina and Nathan were asked to attend. "She also gets frustrated too quickly and undermines my teaching. Something as simple as cursive and printing. 'It's like this' she would correct me."
"I'm so sorry. I'll talk to her." Sabrina inserts apologetically.
"Please do, her behavior is affecting the other children. They are beginning to undermine me as well."
Sabrina sighs and her shoulders drop.
Nathan reaches out and covers her hand. He was sitting beside her, with their youngest, who is two, on his lap. Her name is Meranda Gwen Alden. Unexpectedly, she screams. "Ahhhh."
Mrs. Tilly jumps.
"Nathan." Sabrina scolds. He knew better than to touch her when Meranda was around. That little one has serious territorial issues when it came to her father and looked just like him too. He never had someone dictate him the way she does. "Okay, okay, I'm sorry." He whispers near Meranda's ear and moves his hand away.
"I'm sorry Miss Tilly; Please continue." Sabrina looks at the teacher apologetically.
After adjusting herself, Mrs. Tilly clears her throat. "There's nothing else. Just please talk to her."
"Yes of course." Nathan stands and lifts Meranda with him.
As Sabrina gets up from her seat, Nathan puts his free hand around her back instinctively.
"Ahhhh," Meranda screams again, a scream that was so high pitch, Sabrina and Miss Tilly covered ether ears; and Nathan covers her mouth. "Okay, I'm sorry." He tells her again, so she would stop.
"I'm sorry." Sabrina apologizes again.
The teacher gave her a shame-on-you expression. Shame on you as a parent, to be more specific.
"Let's go, Jasmine," Nathan calls his older daughter from across the classroom.
She was sitting in a circle of children along with her younger brother." Dean Benjamin Alden, who is four. He looked like a mixture of his parents and was their angel. A natural-born lover, not a fighter, and going to break hearts, or what Sabrina is more afraid of, have his heartbroken.
"Come on Dean." She stretches out her palm.
The two, Jasmine and Dean, follow their instructions, and they all leave the school building.
In the truck, on the way, only back home, Meranda whined the entire ride, Jasmine and Dean both kept their mouths shut. Jasmine knew she was in trouble, and Dean just didn't want to cross between the line of fire.
When they arrived home, Jasmine got a stern talking to, and her favorite things taken away for a week. Then later, after putting the kids in bed and taking off their mommy and daddy hats, Nathan and Sabrina were finally getting to rest. She lays on his chest, listening to his heartbeat in their completely dark room. This was their time together. It was pretty much the only time they got to be close, and they had to lose sleep to get it.
"Did you see the way Mrs. Tilly looked at me? She thinks I'm the worst mom ever."
"Who cares how she looks at you. She probably doesn't like that Jasmine is smarter than her."
Sabrina giggles. "I'm serious Nathan. You think I'm too easy on them?"
"Maybe you could get a little angry sometimes but that doesn't make you a bad mom." "So, I am too easy on them?"
"A little."
"Why haven't you said anything?"
"Sweetheart; I remember yelling at Jasmine once, it broke you more than her." He rubs her arms gently.
"What do you mean?"
"You're too soft, and you feel sorry for them too easily."
"Nathan." She pleads. "Help me. They're going to turn out to be brats."
He shifts his position until he was above her. "You can start by not feeling guilty when they are being punished. Sometimes, it has nothing to do with what you're doing wrong when they are misbehaving. All kids are unappreciative spoiled brats at one point or another. You have to teach them to appreciate, or they won't learn too."
"You're right" She agrees. How did you get so knowledgeable about kids?"
"I'm not, I just know what our kids need, and if you promise not to feel guilty, I will take the lead with them."
"I promise." She answers with no hesitation.
"You have to understand Sabrina if you hurt, I hurt. I can't discipline them if you're going to stress about it." "Seems to me like you're too soft with me."
"You're my weakness and my strength, what can I say."
She smiles softly and kisses his lips. "I love you."
"I need help with something." He smirks against her mouth.
"I know exactly what you need help with." She blushes.
"So you do feel it." He refers to his growing erection.
She laughs. "Yes. Hard not to. She curls her finger around his neck. "Tell me-"
"Everything Is going to be okay. You are not going to ruin our children." He knew her, and exactly what she needed to hear.
"You won't let me, right?"
"No." he quiets her with his lips and didn't let up.
Most nights they got to shower each other with love, but on others; they hardly had a chance to. Life with kids, but they wouldn't have it any other way.
They loved their children like no other and enjoyed every second of watching them grow up. They watched their own flaws, good habits and bad, and pieces of each-others personality's burst through them.
Once they were all in school, Sabrina got her teaching degree and became a special needs teacher. Nathan kept building his company with even more drive and motivation than before because now, Alden Enterprises is his children's inheritance. As for his shooters, with the help of a team of investigators, he was able to have them convicted, and sent to prison for twenty years plus.
With ups, downs, frustrations, happiness, and most importantly love, they lived happily ever after.
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