A Woman Worth Billions Dated the Wrong Brother novel Chapter 412

Sons

Jason POV

I stared at her. “Sons?”

Alice’s head snapped up from Grandmother’s arms. “Boys?”

The doctor nodded. “Two boys.”

Grandmother laughed through her tears, and I sat there trying to absorb the fact that Amber and I had two sons The relief was almost painful, but even then my thoughts immediately returned to her.

“Can Amber see them?”

“Not yet.”

“When she wakes up, I want them brought to her as soon as it’s medically safe.”

“We’ll do our best.”

Part of me didn’t want to leave the hallway. Amber was somewhere behind those doors, unconscious with a machine forcing air into her lungs, and every instinct I had screamed at me to stay as close to her as possible.

The doctor seemed to understand. “She’s being monitored continuously. The neonatal unit isn’t far, and we’ll send someone for you immediately if anything changes.”

“Immediately.”

“Immediately.”

Only then did I nod. “Okay. I want to see them.”

“Me too.”

I looked down and found Alex standing closer to my wheelchair. He hadn’t said much since arriving, and now that I really looked at him, I realized why. His face was pale, his shoulders were rigid, and his hands were clenched tightly at his sides. He kept looking toward the surgical doors and then back at me as though he expected someone to come through them with more bad news. 1

The girls were frightened, but they were coping. Alice asked questions whenever she didn’t understand something, Rose stayed close to the people who made her feel safe, and Iris had naturally fallen into watching over both of them.

Alex wasn’t coping.

He looked more anxious than I felt, and considering I’d just been told a machine was breathing for my wife, that was saying something.

“Can I go with you?” he asked quietly.

I looked at the doctor. 1

She glanced toward one of the neonatal nurses. “If he follows the hygiene instructions and stays with you, we can allow it.”

I held my hand out to him. “Come on.”

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Alex grabbed it immediately.

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hat’s not fair!” Alice protested from Grandmother’s arms. “If Alex gets to see the babies, I want to see them too!

Rose nodded. “Me too.”

Before I could answer, Iris stepped between them with the patient expression of someone who had apparently decided she was responsible for solving this particular family crisis.

“It’s more than fair.”

Alice stared at her. “How?”

“Because Alex has been the only boy in this family forever, and now there are two more boys. He should get to meet them.” 1

Alex frowned. “That doesn’t make sense.”

“It makes perfect sense.”

“No, it doesn’t,” Alice agreed.

Iris sighed before changing tactics. “Besides, we can wait for Mom to wake up. Then we can meet the babies with

her.”

That stopped them.

Rose looked toward the surgical doors. “Mommy gets to go too?”

“Exactly.”

Alice considered it for several seconds before nodding. “Okay. But Alex can’t hold both of them before us.”

“I wasn’t going to.”

“You might.”

“I won’t.”

“Promise.” 1

“I promise.”

For a few seconds, they sounded like normal children again, and I hadn’t realized how badly I needed to hear that.

Because I couldn’t walk safely, a nurse pushed my wheelchair while Alex stayed beside me. Before we entered the neonatal unit, I looked back toward the doctor.

“If anything changes with Amber, come get me. Don’t wait.”

“We won’t.”

Only then did I let the nurse take me away from the doors.

The neonatal unit was quiet, filled with the soft hum of machines and the regular beeping of monitors. Alex washed his hands with almost obsessive care after the nurse showed him how, scrubbing between every finger and nearly to his elbows before looking at her suspiciously.

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“Again?”

once is enough.”

“Are you sure?”

I looked at him and realized anxiety apparently made both of us equally irritating.

Then the nurse led us toward two bassinets.

“There they are.

I stared through the clear sides and forgot what I had been about to say.

They were tiny, but not frighteningly so. Amber had carried them almost nine months, and it showed. They were smaller because there were two of them, but they looked whole and perfect. One wore a knitted cap and had his face scrunched as though being born had personally offended him, while the other was calmer, one tiny fist

tucked beside his cheek.

“Those are ours?” I asked.

The nurse laughed softly. “They are.”

“Both boys?” Alex asked.

“Both.”

Something in his expression finally loosened.

“Brothers,” he whispered.

“Your brothers.”

He stared at them before looking at me. “They’re really okay?”

“The doctor says they are.”

“But they’re staying here?”

“So the doctors can watch them.”

Alex nodded, apparently satisfied with that answer.

After sanitizing my hands, I reached toward the first baby and offered one finger. His tiny hand opened and curled around the tip, and the feeling that went through me had nothing to do with my injuries.

“Hey,” I whispered. “I’m your dad.”

Alex moved closer. “He’s really small.”

“So were you once.”

“I wasn’t that small.”

“You absolutely were.”

“You didn’t know me when I was born.”

“Details.”

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That earned me the smallest smile.

The second baby shifted, and both Alex and I immediately looked at the nurse.

“He’s okay,” she said before either of us could ask.

“Check him,” I said.

Alex nodded seriously. “Check him.”

The nurse looked between us as though reconsidering whether allowing both Sun men into the neonatal unit had been wise, but she checked anyway.

“Heart rate is good. Oxygen is good. He’s doing exactly what he’s supposed to do.”

“Healthy?” I asked.

“Right now, you have two healthy baby boys. We’re monitoring them because of the exposure, not because they’re showing signs of illness.”

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I wished Amber could hear that.

Alex carefully offered his finger to his brother after the nurse gave him permission. The baby’s hand closed around it, and Alex froze.

“He touched me.”

“I saw.”

“He grabbed me.”

“I also saw that.”

A real smile finally appeared on his face. “Hi. I’m Alex. I’m your big brother.”

I looked away for a moment because apparently there was a limit to how much one person could take in a single day.

A second nurse approached with a tablet. “Mr. Sun, I need some information for their records. Names?”

I opened my mouth and stopped.

Amber and I had discussed names endlessly without ever actually settling on anything. We’d suggested them, rejected them and argued over them, while Alice had offered several names belonging mostly to animated princes and Iris had threatened to name one of the babies herself if we took too long. 1

“We haven’t named them.”

“That’s fine. We can use temporary identifiers.”

“Do that.”

“Baby A Sun and Baby B Sun for now.”

“For now,” I agreed. “We’ll name them when Amber wakes up.”

The nurse’s expression softened. “If that’s what you want.”

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“It is.”