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“Oh my”.
    I looked to Ty, who seemed as worried as me. “What is it? Is something wrong with the baby?”
    My doctor shook her head. “No, nothing is wrong with the babies .”
    For a moment time stood still. Ty’s hold on my hand became loose and he looked down at me, and then turned toward the doctor. “Wait a minute…did you just say…I’m sorry, but did you just say babies…like plural?” Ty’s rambling made me look straight at the doctor.
    She smiled and nodded her head, while she got the position on the monitor and pointed to two separate little peanuts. “You’re having twins. Congratulations .”
    I put my hand up to my mouth and started crying and laughing at the same time. When I felt no reaction from Ty, I squeezed his hand to grab his attention. He had been still staring at the screen. “Babe, are you okay?”
    “She said twins.” He spoke like the doctor wasn’t in the room anymore.
    “Mr. Mitchell do you need to sit down?” She asked him.
    He shook his head, while wetness formed in his eyes , before bending down to kiss me. As he pulled away, he had a huge grin on his face. “We’re having twins.”
    I let out a cackle. “I heard.” We looked back at the screen and watched as she looked at both of the little babies growing inside of me.
    “This one here is a boy.” The doctor pointed to the screen. I heard an air filled laugh come out of Ty as we both awaited the second result. “And it looks like this one is also a boy.”
    Ty just stood there staring at the screen. “Twin boys. Holy shit, Miranda, we’re having twin boys.” He leaned down and planted his lips on mine. “I told you I had super sperm, B aby.”
    Aside from the super sperm comment, Ty did the best he could to contain himself. He made it out to the parking lot before notifying the entire family of our unexpected addition. Of course, I was pretty sure if he could have alerted the media, we would have been on the evening news when we arrived home that night.
    We were still so excited from our news that I had forgotten to ask him about the name until I was climbing out of the car to head back into the salon. I leaned down and reached my body into the driver’s side for my kiss goodbye. “I love you.”
    Ty kissed me twice before he spoke. “Can you believe this shit? We’re having fucking twins .”
    “If they both weigh ten pounds I am going to kill you.”
    He started laughing. “If your ass gets fat, I will still want to hit it, if that’s what you’re worried about.”
    I smacked him on the shoulder. “Ty can you be serious? I was talking about the size of them coming out of me.”
    “Once the first one comes out the other one will just slide behind him.” He seemed confident that he knew everything about childbirth. We shouldn’t have let him in the room when Christian was born. Now he thought he knew as much as the doctors.
    “Now that we know what we’ re having, do I get to name one of the boys?” I hadn’t even considered being able to name this one and refused to get my hopes up about names. Ty knew I had wanted Bella to be named Jacob, but he insisted it was his turn.
    He startled me when he climbed out of the car and grabbed my hand. “What are you doing?”
    He pulled us into the salon and got my bosses attention. “Amy, I need you to clear my wife’s schedule for the day. Is it possible?”
    Amy was the best boss ever. She had given me a chance when I thought I would never have one. It was my job that helped me stay with Ty so long ago. She had done so much for me and our friendship had grown because of my appreciation for her.
    Amy worked her ass off for her family, while her deadbeat husband refused to hold a job. He preferred getting drunk and lying around in his tighty whities all day. Amy would work ten hours a day, sometimes even more, to avoid going home to him. She had even taken on his daughter from a previous marriage. She was six teen and loved playing with Bella. The thing