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Trinity
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“Reece, are you confident in your ability to hold all three, or should I have Zayden be put back into the bassinet?” I looked to see him just smiling and crying silently as he watched the babies in his arms.
“I am good, my love. I can hold them all.” He could too. His arms were more than big enough, and he was relaxing in the chair so that the two that he had right now were laying against his chest.
“I thought that you would say that.” I laughed softly for a moment, I didn't want to wake the babies so I made sure it was quiet. “May, can you hand Zayden to Reece and then hand me my little girl?” I asked the woman that was acting like my personal helper.
“Wait just a moment. I want to see her too. Let me scoot closer.”
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And just like that, Reece started to push the chair closer to the bed. He was just using his legs and hadn't gotten up from the chair at all. Under any other circumstances, it would have been childish or disrespectful. But right now, he was doing what he had to do so that he didn't disturb the babies. I also noticed that he was moving the chair gently, so that it didn't make a lot of noise and wake the babies up. He was the best daddy ever.
“Alright, I am in position. Please hand me the baby.” Reece looked up from the chair and at the nurse that was waiting with Zayden in her arms.
“Yes, King Reece. Here you go.” May nodded at him and then laid the third little boy down on his chest. Reece was now leaning back and holding all the boys on his chest. And I could tell that he was the happiest man alive at that moment.
“Alright, Queen Trinity.” May was back now. She had handed Reece Zayden and gone to get the pink wrapped bundle from the fourth and final bassinet. This was when I was finally going to see my little girl. The surprise bundle of joy that we were blessed with. “Here is your little angel. And look at that, she is awake and waiting for her mommy.”
“Really?” She was the only one that was awake right now. The boys were all sleeping soundly but this little girl was awake when the nurse handed her to me.
This bundle felt so similar to the others. She was less than a pound lighter than the boys were, but somehow, she just felt so much smaller than them. She seemed so tiny and frail as I held her against my chest.
“Hello there, little one.” I smiled at her. “I am your mommy.” It seemed to me like she was looking right at me. It felt like she was paying close attention to me and couldn't get enough of my face. “Oh, you are so beautiful, aren't you?”
I was so surprised by the way that she looked. She didn't look like the boys at all. If I were to say anything at all about her, I would say that she was the polar opposite of her brothers. They had pure black hair, just like Reece's, and I knew that their eyes would be honey colored like his as well. This little girl, in contrast to them, had snowy white hair. And she was looking at me with icy blue eyes that were very familiar to mine. They were just a little off from being the same color as mine. And to top it all off, she was pure white. She was just like Edmond had been when he was born.
Looking at this little girl in my arms, I swear she was Edmond. She was my father reborn. I had to wonder if this was where his soul had ended up. When he left the underworld that day, did he come to this little girl? Was she literally him?
I didn't have a doubt in my mind that she was. This little girl, she was my father's second chance at life. And I did basically say that if I were his mother, I would have made sure that he had a good life. I would have loved him. I would have made him grow up happy and healthy. Well, now was my chance. Now I would be able to prove to the world that Edmond's soul, and those of the others, really could be changed if they only had a loving family to help them.
“Trinity? Little Bunny?” Reece was looking at our little girl in my arms with his jaw hanging open. “Do you notice something about how she looks?”
“Do you mean that she is one of the three most beautiful baby girls that I have ever seen?” I grinned and looked at him. He would see that I had no problem at all with how this little girl looked. She was ours. She was our precious little girl and that was all that mattered.
“She most definitely is beautiful.” He agreed, not denying it at all. “She looks a lot like you, but she looks more like someone else. Did you notice that?”
“Yes, Reece. I do happen to notice that she looks exactly like another member of my family. And I do believe that there is a reason for that. A reason we will discuss privately later.” I didn't want to hash this out in front of the nurses that were in here with us right now.
“Yeah, we will talk about it later.” He nodded at me in agreement and just continued to look at our little girl. “We need to think of a name for her soon.” He was right, but I wanted to talk about that alone as well.
“May, Jan, Reba, Will, can all of you give us some time alone with the babies please. I would like to bond with them and talk with my husband about a few things as well.”
“Yes, understood. We will return shortly, Queen Trinity. And when I do return, I will bring with me some formula so that you can feed the babies. They will need to eat soon. After that, I will take them to the nursery so that you can get some rest.” May was taking the lead like she had so many times already. And after she spoke, the others just left the room without another word. They were definitely obedient little workers.
Now that Reece and I were alone, it was time for us to start discussing what we were going to do about the baby's name. And it was time for us to discuss her uniqueness.
“She is Edmond, isn't she?” Reece asked the moment that the others were out of the room. He had lowered his voice so that it was barely audible, but I still heard him just fine.
“Yes, Reece, she is Edmond reborn. I had thought to myself in the underworld that I was saddened on his behalf. And I sort of told myself that I knew he would have done better if he had been raised with love instead of hate.” I looked up into his eyes. “Remember though, Reece, Edmond saved my life, and the life of the boys. We owe him everything. This is our chance to pay back that debt.”
“I know, Trinity. I know that he was reformed. I know that we owe him for your life and the lives of all three boys. I am just wary about the fact that others might not be as accepting of her.” He was worried. Not for himself or his image, but about her. He loved her no differently than the boys and was already trying to protect her.
“We will make them accept her. We will show the world that she is her own person and that her soul's origins do not dictate whether she is good or bad. She will show the world that she and all the others in the underworld, are capable of being good once again.”
“You truly are a loving person, Trinity. You know that?” Reece looked at me with love in his eyes as he asked me that.
“Sometimes a little too loving.” I joked back at him.
“So, what should we name her? Do you have any ideas?”
“Well, I was thinking about that as I looked into her face. She needs a pretty name that suits her, but I also want to pay tribute somehow to the man that gave his life for us.” I was trying to do this right. I wanted to make sure that a part of his name was in there somehow.
“So, you want to put his name in there somewhere?” Reece looked worried for a moment. “I don't know about that. Then people would associate her with him a lot.
“Well, we can do a play on his middle name. That way it is there but not really there. How about something like Zaley Arnelia Gray. Then we have two zigs and two zags, and Arnelia is a play on Cornelius. The female version being Cornelia and we change that to Arnelia.” I told him my suggestion and watched for his reaction.
“Yeah, I think I like that. And it's really pretty. It suits her well. Hello my little Zag. Hello little Zaley.” Reece called out to her in a cooing sort of voice as he acclimated himself with her name. Well, at least this part of things was settled. Now we just needed to tell everyone else about her.
