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He hadn’t thought it possible to be any happier than he already was. But life with his wife and daughter had brought him more joy than he had ever experienced.
The Pearson Group had launched the night Alexandra had said yes to his proposal and quickly taken New York City by storm. Less than a year after its launch, Grant’s personal net worth had soared past one billion dollars.
And he couldn’t care less, he thought as he watched Alexandra pull Carla into her lap and press a salty kiss to her cheek. Alexandra had reminded him of who he used to be and what really mattered. Yes, the Pearson Group was important, but funneling money into causes they cared about, from establishing a fund for up-and-coming entrepreneurs in New York City to sending money to communities in Brazil, had become his focus. One that Alexandra, when she wasn’t designing the latest wedding bouquets and centerpieces for the Big Apple’s elite, helped him with.
That and making several trips throughout the year back to Brazil. Coming home, seeing his family for the first time in two decades, watching his mother blossom as she’d walked up and down the streets of her former home, had been a balm to his soul. The pain of losing his father would never fully heal. But with Alexandra by his side and the heat of a Brazilian sun warming his skin, life was better than he had ever thought possible.
Alexandra looked up, her eyes darkening as she caught Grant’s gaze and gave him a saucy wink.
Thank God they had visited Brazil in the off season, when the beaches were all but empty. Otherwise, his body’s uncontrolled reaction to the flirtatious smile lurking on her lips would be on display for the world to see.
“What time does your mother arrive?” Alexandra asked as she picked Carla up and bounced her on her hip.
Grant’s eyes traveled over her trim frame encased in a ruby-red one-piece, her tan legs glowing under the morning sun. Legs that had been wrapped around his waist last night as he’d thrust into her, her body draped over the edge of the pool, head back as she’d tried, and failed, to keep her cries from escaping past her lips. A problem he’d been happy to solve as he’d kissed her and swallowed her moans of pleasure as he’d followed her over the top and into explosive bliss.
“Five o’clock. And Finn and Amanda and their brood arrive tomorrow. Between our little goblin and Finn’s twins, my mother will be in baby heaven,” Grant said with a smile as he sat up and held out his arms. His smile grew as Alexandra passed him twenty-eight pounds of wet, sandy toddler. Carla jabbered at him and wrapped her hands around one of his fingers.
“Maybe Carla would like to spend some time with herAvóJordana tonight and we could go out for dinner.”
He arched a suggestive eyebrow at her. “Is that code for something?”
Alexandra playfully swatted at his thigh as she sat down on a towel next to him. “No. I was just thinking we should take advantage while we can. It’ll be a lot harder to go out when there are two kids.”
“I can...”
His voice trailed off as her words sank in. His head whipped around, his chest expanding as he took in her radiant smile.
“You’re...” His eyes drifted down to her stomach, then back to her face. “Really?”
“Probably close to seven weeks.”
He reached over, snaked an arm around her waist, pulled her across the sand onto his towel and kissed her long and hard.
“I kiss Daddy!”
Grant pulled back just as Carla threw her arms around his neck and planted a sandy kiss on his cheek. Grant threw back his head and laughed as Alexandra snuggled into his side.
“I was wrong,” he said as he kissed first the top of his daughter’s head and then his wife’s.
“Oh?”
“I think we’re living in a fairy tale.”
