Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

-Lao Tzu

LVI | EPILOGUE

I yawned silently as I rested comfortably on my bed, the ray of light surfaced on my skin, alerting me it was time to wake up. I sat on the bed rubbing my eyes and stretched, realizing the spot next to me was empty. I was confused at first before getting up slowly and entering into the bathroom to quickly wash.

Afterwards, I left my bedroom and made my way towards the kitchen to see Reece cooking skillfully. I silently sat on the center island, admiring his back muscles and thanked God he was shirtless.

"You can never seem to get enough of me, can you Mrs West," he said, turning to me with a smirk in which I gladly returned as I flipped my hair.

"Getting tired of you doesn't even fit well into my vocabulary Mr West," I said truthfully and he smiled, walking towards me and pecking my lips. I wrapped my arms around his waist and pulled him closer.

"Morning," I said, pecking his lips again, lingering a little longer.

"Mornin'," he mumbled in my mouth before pulling away.

"The twins awake yet?" I asked and as on cue, they ran into the kitchen with their Onesies on, laughing as they ran to both me and Reece.

I laughed as Avalon signaled Reece to pick her up and Aiden basically bounced on my lap. The four years old's hyper as ever.

"Let's just say they were already runnin' up and down in Avalon's room before I even came to check up on them," Reece laughed and I smiled as I combed through Avalon's brown hair, which she had gotten from Reece, Aiden had gotten my blonde hair. Avalon had dark Carmel skin like my mother, while Aiden's skin color was exactly the same as Reece's.

I laughed when Aiden began to jump on me, "Aiden, be careful, remember your Mother's pregnant," Reece said sternly, but there was still a hint of playfulness in his eyes.

Aiden immediately stopped jumping and now sat on my lap, rubbing my stomach and started to laugh. "Mommy, Daddy, is it a boy or a girl?" Avalon asked, slowly turning to Reece who was still carrying her.

I looked down at my stomach, "a boy honey, just three more months to go," I said happily as both of our children smiled, obviously happy to be welcoming their new brother soon.

"That's right. We already have a name for him, and you're goin' to love it," Reece said and I chuckled.

As soon as I gave birth to Avalon and Aiden, I already knew what their names were going to be: Avalon Riley West, and Aiden Chase West, and we wouldn't have picked any other names.

"Oh oh, will his name be tatt-oed on your arm like everyone else's?" Avalon asked and this caused me to smirk.

After many years of persuasion, I had finally gotten Reece to tattoo my name on his wrist, and of course, Aiden and Avalon's names were on his other wrist as well.

"Definitely," he said and they both smiled. Suddenly my phone rang from the bedroom, I placed Aiden gently down on the floor before getting up as I strolled through the hallways of our house in Hampton, New York.

After high school, both me and Reece moved to California and attended Stanford University, me with a degree in Law and him in Business.

After college Reece took over his family's company after his father since Robin did not want to peruse in the business world. We moved to New York since Reece wanted to be closer to the main headquarter of his family's business in America, and we have been living in New York since then.

I made my way into my room and went to grab my phone from the nightstand and playfully rolled my eyes when seeing the caller.

'I'm guessing you and Jake's second honeymoon went swell,' I answered chuckling and she giggled.

'Obviously, we just came back, I tried to get a hold on Zoey and Miles and even Chase and Laurianne, but none of them seems to be answering me,' she said sighing and I laughed. For some odd reason, Ronnie wanted to have a second honeymoon with Jake even though they already have two kids and still live in Florida, that girl is crazy, but I love her.

Zoey and Miles were still going strong and were now married with one child and living in England actually since both went there for their masters, and as for Chase and Laurianne, the same goes for them except they have two children and still live in Florida.

I rolled my eyes. 'Did you try to reach Ocean or Blake?' I asked, Blake was Ocean's husband, she met him when she went on to study doctoring at the University of Princeton in New Jersey and now they have a child together and live in New Jersey.

Ronnie sighed. 'No, those idiots didn't answer either. I swear everyone is just fucking pushing my buttons slowly,' she groaned.

'Landon and Brooke?' I asked who was now married as well, they didn't have any children yet, but Brooke was indeed pregnant after about three years of miscarriages and Landon stayed by her side through it all. They moved to Texas last year.

'What's the point of even asking that question Violetta, only God knows what they are possibly doing now, and I don't even want to know,' she said basically shouting.

Eh, she wasn't lying about that part.

'Ronnie how about this, next week we will all go have dinner together since you oddly want to celebrate being back from your second honeymoon with Jake,' I said rolling my eyes.

She squealed. 'That would be amazing V, I'll plan it with Jake now and hopefully the others will pick up this time, bye, gotta go,' she said hanging up before I could even tell her bye.

I rolled my eyes before placing my phone back on the nightstand and heading back to the kitchen to see Reece gathering the breakfast since we were eating outside.

"Who was that?" He asked placing a bib on Avalon and Aiden.

"Ronnie, next week we have to go to Florida and see everyone else," I said as the four of us walked outside into the gardens at the back of the house.

Reece grabbed the picnic blanket and placed it smoothly on the cut green grass as me and him began to place our breakfast on top of it.

Once it was set, the four of us sat down and began to eat. I moaned in satisfaction, " I honestly will never get tired of your cooking." I said truthfully to Reece who smiled at me as he made sure the twins eggs were cut into pieces.

Reece started to eat his own breakfast as he scooted closer to me. I turned to Avalon and Aiden who were whispering to one another playfully as they ate their food. My eyes drifted back to Reece.

Reece noticed me staring at him and raised an eyebrow laughing, "why are you starin' at me like that?" He asked and my smile increased.

"Thank you," was all I could say and he gave me a confused look.

"For makin' breakfast?" He asked and I chuckled.

"No, thank you for being one of the best things that's has ever happened to me," I said, turning back to the kids, "thank you for being the father of my children," I said and now looked down on my left finger, smiling as I wore my three rings on my first three fingers: my promise ring, my engagement ring and my wedding ring. "--and most importantly, thank you for being my husband," I said looking back at him.

He looked shocked at first then gave me a gentle smile, "where is this all comin' from?" He asked suspiciously but still had that smile on his face.

I shrugged, "just thought you should know, that's all," I said truthfully resting my head on his shoulder as he pulled me closer and gently pecked my lips.

"Eww," Aiden said, causing all of us to laugh around the table.

After breakfast Reece started to play with the kids in the garden. I laughed as they tried to run away from him with their giggles as he finally caught both of them in his arms before placing them both on the grass and began to tickle them.

I smiled at that and looked up at the sky before turning back to look at the three most important people in my life and unknowingly began to rub my stomach knowing another edition will join our family.

I chuckle as Aiden stood up and jumped on Reece's back, trying to make Reece fall as Avalon jumped on Reece's front causing all of them to fall in heap of laughters.

" mommy, come join us!" Aiden said excitedly as he was full of energy as always.

I laughed and brought myself up from the picnic blanket and made my way to my husband and children and immediately began to tickle Avalon as Reece did the same with Aiden.

You know, it's funny how a social outcast ended up with the most popular boy in school all because I accidentally damaged his car, causing me to become his fake girlfriend to make his ex-jealous and somehow we ended up falling in love.

All I know is I wouldn't want to be with anyone else.

                      The End