Thank you for all the nice feedbacks. I'm not very good at picking names, hope the names I've picked for the babies were OK. Here's the update.
Stella woke up to a room full of flowers, balloons and cards. She felt better after a few hours of sleep. She found Mac left a note on the nightstand. In which he said he had to go to work but he would return ASAP.
“Congratulations! Stella.” Here came grinning Flack and Danny. They kissed Stella on the cheek.
“You looked good! The fellows at the lab said congratulations. They would come over tomorrow.” Danny said.
“Thank you, guys.”
“We just visited your angels at the nursery. Did you pick the names yet?” Flack asked.
“Lawrence and Sophia.” Stella said proudly.
“Lawrence Taylor. Man! He’s cries cracked the ceiling.” Flack chuckled.
“Well, Princess Sophia doesn’t need to cry. She stares you down.” Danny pointed to his own eyes with two crooked fingers.
“Yeah, inherited the toughness from their folks. I can picture the Taylor family kicking ass.” Flack winked at Danny. They burst into laughter. Stella laughed with them.
“I’ll have your ass if you two teach my kids to fight each other.” Mac entered the room. He went to Stella and kissed her.
“We fight, but we’re good brothers.” Flack flung a hand over Danny’s shoulders.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we don’t blame our god fathers.” Danny added.
Mac smiled and shook his head.
“OK, guys. Tell me about the Carter case.” Stella demanded.
“We arrested this guy, Charles Gibbs, he worked in the grocery store Mrs. Carter shopped. They became friends. Mr. Gibbs here had some gambling problems and he always needed money. He found out where Mrs. Carter stacked the money. And he knew that she would take Sean to the park every morning. Yesterday morning, he broke into her house to take the money. Unfortunately, Mrs. Carter returned home earlier because Sean had a stomach ache. Gibbs figured he couldn’t let her live because she knew him, so he killed her with a hammer. He grabbed Sean by his arm when the boy tried to run. Sean scratched his hand hard. ” Flack reported.
“Thank god we got him.” Stella sighed.
“Only you almost caused Mac a heart attack.” Danny teased.
“Well, my heart is strong enough.”
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After Flack and Danny left, Stella and Mac finally have some private space.
“Are you tired?” Mac stroked Stella’s hair.
“Yeah. You too. I scared you a lot today. Come here.” Stella moved aside to give Mac some space to lie down.
Mac climbed into the bed, held his wife in his arms and kissed her deeply.
“I’m sorry I yelled at you this morning. I was afraid you might have danger.” Mac said.
“I’m sorry too. I should be more considerate.” Stella said apologetically. “Mac, now the case was over. Can you pull some strings to help Sean find a decent foster home?”
“I’ll see what I can do.” Mac promised.
“Thank you, I love you.” Stella kissed her husband.
“Stella, you made my life whole. Thank you!”