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Lucy’s tears intensified again as she pressed little Josephine to her cheek. She let out a soft coo in return.
“She is so precious.”
“She is everything to us,” Ben said softly running his hand over Josephine’s head.
Lucy’s face brightened, turned to pure joy. Suddenly she grew serious again. "Benjamin… your inheritance… you can have it. All of it. What do I need it for if I would die alone?” She looked over to Barney. “Or with him,” she joked.
“Yeah that would be pretty bad,” Barney said with a grin, being uncharacteristically quiet.
"Thanks, Mom," Benjamin replied and shook his head. "But you hold on to it. I've got all it takes to build my own empire. I've got my family, and that's the most important thing to me."
Lucy beamed with pride.He looks different,she thought.In a good way.Maybe things could be different after all... maybe things could be good, maybe there was no such thing as cursed money. Maybe people just got lost on their path of life at times and needed a little, or a lot, of help to find their way back to what truly mattered.
“Now that we are all a happy family again… does that mean I can stay at the mansion with you?” Barney asked Lucy.
“No,” she said loud and clear.
“We shall see about that,” Barney muttered to himself as he walked by Ava and Ben to see if there was beer in the fridge. Lucy followed with the baby in hand. Ava wanted to go after them as well, but Ben pulled her back.
“Do you know that I love you?” he asked her with a grin on his face.
“You think giving up a billion dollars for me was all you had to do to prove that to me?” she teased him back.
“Well you are out of luck then, because I have some other things in mind to prove it to you once the fam is gone and the baby is asleep.” He smiled at her but then became serious again.
“I love you,” she said looking deep into her eyes.
“I love you, too,” she whispered back and gave him a gentle kiss.
“NO BEER IN THIS HOUSE?!” Barney yelled from the kitchen as if the world had come to an end. Ava rolled her eyes and rushed after them.
As Ben watched his entire family in the kitchen, happily babbling away, joking and laughing, he knew that his grandfather had not been insane, nor did not he go crazy before his death. He didn’t want to punish him from the afterlife, nor did he hate him. Quite the opposite. He had remained the genius Elijah Radcliff the world had known him for to the very minute he had left this world for his next adventure—hopefully somewhere where he could see Benjamin now and rest assured that for the first time in his life, he was truly happy and grateful for all his grandfather had done for him.
He had finally become the person he was meant to be—a loving husband, father, son, and nephew.
