Where the Streets have no Name (21 page)

Inside the small room, Amelia was on a bed of cushions and blankets, blood-soaked towels piled next to her. His heart stopped – until he saw her smiling.

“Jaysus, lass,” he said, rushing to her side. “Don’t feckin’ scare me like that!”

“Daniel! You can’t swear in a church!”

He wiped the sweat-drenched hair from her brow and opened his mouth to answer, but the gurgle at her chest froze his muscles.
His eyes flicked there and landed on the face of his baby. Their baby.

“She did just fine,” Dr. Sheenan said, packing up the soiled linens in a bin bag. “Both mother and baby are doing well. When the helicopter arrives, we’ll take her to
hospital and get them both checked out, but things are fine, Daniel.”

He nodded, only half listening to the doctor. Everything. Right here in this room was his everything. The rest of the world ceased to exist – there was only him, his wife, and their child. He didn’t know yet if they had a boy or a girl, and it didn’t matter. Christ, he couldn’t breathe through the tangled mess of emotions milling in his chest.

“Say hello to your son, Daniel,” Amelia whispered, pulling back the blanket to reveal his sleeping boy.

“Son…” He shoved a hand to his throat. “I… We…”

“…have a son,” she finished for him, laughing. “What should we name him? I was thinking…Liam George.”

“A-after…” He swallowed through a fist of emotions “…my Da?”

Amelia smiled. “Yeah.”

“Ah lass…” His
mouth came down on hers, soft and sweet. “Thank you.”

“
Helicopter’s here,” Brian announced.

“Can I lift her?” Daniel asked the doctor, without breaking contact from Amelia’s eyes.

“Sure,” he answered.

Daniel lifted the two most important people in the world to him up and into his arms. He touched his lips gently to his son’s brow, then, with his heart
near bursting, he carried them outside to the waiting chopper. The sooner they got her looked over, the sooner they could go home and begin the rest of their lives together.

Thank you so much for purchasing

WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME

I hope you enjoyed Daniel and Amelia’s story!

xox Danielle

Danielle Taylor is the author of the
Captive Hearts Series
,
Falling for You
, and
Letting Go
(book I in the
ADVENTURES INC. SERIES
). She loves to eat foods she shouldn’t, reading, and writing. Aside from her family, of course.

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