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he looked around the room.
    “Limo.” Sara headed for the door that led outside.
    “ Limo ?” Doug repeated, taking Morgan’s hand and pulling her along with him.
    “It’s the only car we can all fit into,” Sara said, pushing the door open. “And nobody wants to miss this.”
    Of course. There was no breaking this group up. No matter what was going on. They’d even gotten the twenty-passenger-who-even-makes-a-limo-this-big limo. “Dani’s going to have the baby in the limo?” Morgan asked, picking up her skirt so she could jog along with them.
    “Well, no. The hospital’s only ten minutes away,” Sara said.
    Sam ran to the limo, his dress shoes slipping in the pea gravel surrounding the parking area. He grabbed for the handle on the back door and wrenched it open, barely catching himself from falling to his knees.
    Dani was on the backseat, propped up against Jessica and lying on top of three tux jackets, her lap covered by a white dress shirt.
    Jessica was talking to her softly. Mac, dressed only in a white undershirt, knelt next to her on the car floor. Ben, also in a white undershirt, was between her knees.
    And Kevin sat on the seat across from the door…holding a baby.

Chapter Three
    Sam stared at the tiny baby in Kevin’s arms.
    He felt like every muscle in his chest was cramping. He couldn’t breathe and he wasn’t entirely sure his heart was going to be able to beat in another minute.
    A baby was already here. A baby. One of his babies. One of his daughters.
    And he’d missed it.
    One of their daughters had come into the world without him.
    A groan caught his attention and he was able to move his gaze from the tiny baby girl to the gorgeous woman who lay on the back limo seat.
    Danika.
    She looked up at him and the moment he looked into her eyes, everything cleared up.
    “Sam.”
    Before she even had his name out, he was in the limo, kneeling on the floor next to her.
    Sam leaned in close to her, running his hand over her hair. “I’m here, babe. I’m here.”
    He felt the car start as Dani grabbed his hand and squeezed, huffing and puffing through another contraction.
    Sam watched her, his breathing nearly as ragged. Once the pain passed, he dropped his forehead to hers. “God, Dani, I’m so sorry I missed the first one.”
    She lifted her hand to his face. “It’s going really fast, Sam. Way faster than we expected. It’s okay. I’m okay. Everyone’s here.”
    Sam lifted his head and looked around the interior of the car. Everyone was there. Everyone they cared about, everyone they needed. Then his gaze landed on the bundle in Kevin’s arms again. He tried to swallow and couldn’t.
    “She okay?” he asked his friend.
    “Perfect,” Kevin assured him.
    Sam turned back to his wife. He wanted to hold the baby so badly, but once he held her, he’d never want to put her down and Dani needed him right now. “Why didn’t you tell me this was starting?”
    “Because you would have made me leave and we had plenty of time.”
    Sam snorted. “Clearly.”
    “Well, I went from barely there contractions to…” She gave a soft laugh and gestured toward their first baby. “… her in the matter of about an hour.”
    “Do you have any idea how lucky you are?” Jessica asked with a small laugh. “You can not tell people that you had twins in a matter of an hour and a half. Every other mother will hate you.”
    Sara was tucked up against Mac and her eyes had been stoically fastened on the window until her sister spoke. She spun on her seat to face them. “Did you say twins ?”
    “Twin girls ,” Kevin said, gently patting the butt of the baby that was tiny enough to fit fully in one of his big hands.
    “What’d you think we were still doing here?” Jess asked her sister with a smile.
    “I don’t know how all this goes,” Sara said, waving her hand at everything in front of her. Her eyes were wide. “You didn’t tell us it was going to be twins!”
    “Sam deserves twin