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"The babies are doing fine, Mrs Yoshida," Dr Sou said to Shaundra the next day He helped her sit up on the examination table "Where&039;s Mr Yoshida? He hasn&039;t missed a prenatal visit since you returned to Osaka"

"He&039;s busy rehearsing for a tour and a charity concert benefit," Shaundra told hi and whisked the fellows out of the house and off to some unknown location before she woke up Ichiro left a note inforo with her and didn&039;t knohat ti

"Did you drive here by yourself?"

"Yes," Shaundra answered "I&039; around in all the traffic"

"Yousomeone drive you here the next ti hurt or kidnapped"

Shaundra laughed "Why would someone want to kidnap me?"

"Because you&039;re a world famous author and you&039;re married to a pop idol"

And not to mention a much hated person on the Aomori fan club list Not a day went by when she didn&039;t receive threatening e-mail or Twitter blasts and even nancy on Aoet so your third trimester and we have to be very careful with the babies"

"Is it still only two inside of ht"

Dr Sou chuckled ""As far as I can tell you&039;re carry two very large"

"Shush, don&039;t tell me their sex"

"Are you sure? Most wo for the babies"

"I&039;m sure I don&039;t want to know Aoirls"

"And what do you want?" The doctor asked

"Healthy babies," Shaundra answered And a hysterectomy

"I want you to stick to a no-salt diet, drink plenty of milk, and take your vitamins"

"Is it still safe to have intercourse?" Shaundra asked

"Yes, for now I&039;ll let you knohen you need to stop" He paused "I guess it is hard having a young husband"

"Not really," Shaundra replied "Except for hi potent He wants to have e?" the doctor asked

Shaundra nodded "Apparently he thinks women can continue to push out babies well into their sixties"

"It is not impossible," the doctor replied "But I do not recommend it You&039;ll be too old to run behind them"

"I&039;m already too old to run behind the else?"

"Well, except for your blood pressure, you&039;re in excellent shape Your pressure is nor an eye on it"

"Thanks," Shaundra said That&039;s all she needed was onean eye on her salt intake She&039;d kill for a potato chip right about now

"So when is the tour beginning?" the doctor asked

"In twoEurope this time"

"Will he coed "I&039; into when I "

"Yes, I supposed he does" The doctor scribbled so on his pad "I&039;d like to see you back her in a month Then I will decide whether we have to put you in the hospital in September or October"

"Do I still need a Cesarean?"

The doctor nodded "It looks that way These babies are too big for you to deliver normally, and I don&039;t want to harm you in the process"

"I understand I&039;ll let Ichiro and the others know"

The doctor rose and helped her off the table "You can get dressed now" He bowed and left her to change

Shaundra reot dressed Ten minutes later she had her next appointment scheduled and was about to leave when she re

"Can you tell y departave her the information and Shaundra left and rode the elevator to the fourth floor She walked up to another infor to find Keiichi Wantanabe"

"Oh, I&039;m sorry He just went down to the cafeteria for lunch"

"Where is the cafeteria?"

"It&039;s located on the second floor to the right of the elevators," the young woman told her

Shaundra bowed "Thank you" She smiled at the woman and headed back to the elevator Moments later she stepped inside the cafeteria She spotted Dr Wantanabe seated at a table, aedJapanese man with thick black hair and dark brown eyes He wore a hospital unifor a sandhen she approached

"Good afternoon, Dr Wantanabe," Shaundra said

The man looked up, his eyes widened and then he jumped out of his seat "Mrs Yoshida, is that you?"

Shaundra nodded and s the stares frolad you&039;ve awakened and you&039;re safe Please jointo eat?" He helped her into a chair

"No, thank you I have to have all of ht You have hypertension"

Shaundra sighed She supposed that little bit of information will be written on her to yourmy life"

"No thanks needed I would have done the same for anyone," he said modestly

"Yes, but you risked your own life to do so"

Keiichi went back to his seat "I couldn&039;t very well leave you to die You needed to live"

"Thank you I appreciate you savingme safely to Tokyo"

"When did you wake up?" he asked

"Several weeks ago I didn&039;t knohere the heck I was or what had happened?"

He leaned forward "How much of it do you re after that is a blank"

He leaned back in his seat "Nothing else is important"

"I also remember that kiss," Shaundra replied

Keiichi blushed "I&039; so forward, but you were terrified and I thought it would calm you down"

"It did," Shaundra said with a ss to re o He said he was your brother-in-law"

Shaundra nodded "Satoshi He&039;s not really roup with my husband, but he is a very dear friend of er?" Keiichi asked

"Yes, have you heard of a pop group na? Of course I&039;ve heard of them Wait, you&039;re married to Ichiro Yoshida?"

Shaundra nodded

"No wonder I thought I recognized the young man who visited me So is he the father?"

"Yes," Shaundra replied "He&039;s way too young for me, but yes"

"He&039;s one lucky fellow," Keiichi replied

"He knows that"

"So what are you doing in Osaka?"

"I live here," Shaundra said "I had a doctor&039;s appointht I&039;d drop by and say thank you I will always be grateful for what you did for ht?"

"I&039;m off," he answered "Why?"

Shaundra opened her purse and pulled out two tickets "I want you to be uest at a private performance for Aomori

It&039;s a charity event for Japanese earthquake victims"

"No," I can&039;t accept those," Keiichi said "That&039;s for your friends"

"You&039;re my friend," Shaundra told him "And it would mean the world to me if you accept"

"I don&039;t have a tuxedo to wear to so like that,"

Keiichi said

"You don&039;t need one A suit will do, and you&039;ll get to meet Aomori and the rest of my friends They will all want to meet you"

Keiichi finally accepted the tickets

Shaundra rose "I have to go"

Keiichi rose And walked over to her

Shaundra rose up on her toes and kissed him on the cheek "Thank you for my life and the life of my babies"

Keiichi wiped a tear from his eyes "You are one special lady, Ms Yoshida"

"Call me Shaundra We&039;re friends remember?"

Keiichi nodded "Thanks for the tickets Myto be so excited"

"Your mother? You&039;re not ht woirl," Shaundra replied "You&039;re one hell of a kisser" She sata looked over at hishow they looked when he first recruited theroup in Asia He sighed No father could be prouder And what a handful of trouble

Yori, the leader with the beautiful face and the arrogant ego of a God had gotten himself married to a pain-in-the-butt ho couldn&039;t control her spending but who loved Yori dearly

Satoshi, the rock on which Aoant, flirtatious, and a bit of a ladies&039; reatest piano men in the country

Everyone alent to him with their problems, but he couldn&039;t recall a ti He didn&039;t know if it was a good thing to keep all his concerns bottled up, but he figured sooner or later he&039;d find so man had been trouble from the moment he&039;d been recruited He had doubts about that one in the beginning He&039;d been feisty and full of play But when it caht down to it, Takumijo had more discipline than any of the others He knehat he wanted out of life even if soot him into trouble While he and Masaaki worried about Takumijo&039;s relationship with the actor Osaain and hoped Takuht decision when the tirown andhe barely spoke He had the beautiful voice of an angel but he was so shy Then suddenly he blossomed into e Goro didn&039;t think that it was a good idea at the time, and still didn&039;t But it was too late now and besides, Shaundra was pregnant

Oh, yes, he&039;d heard the ru Ichiro&039;s, but no one would know the truth for a couple of months His money was on Harper Kehoe Only a fool could not see that the man was hopelessly in love with his star author and she had soht her clothes and flew halfway around the world a couple of times to see her In his heart he hoped Harper wasn&039;t the father because if he turned out to be, all hell was going to break loose in Aomori&039;s camp and he&039;d be the one who&039;d have to put out the fire

"Well, what do you guys think about going to Europe,"

Goro asked thereat opportunity," Yori said "And it&039;s tio stir crazy just sitting around the house"

"That&039;s because Amaya is there with you," Takumijo teased "I told you I&039;d take her off your hands when you get bored"

Yori sraph me some killer steps for the tour," Goro told Taku it all out inon the music"

Goro turned to Satoshi "You&039;re up piano man Got any music we can use for this tour?"

"Sos and we are thinking about doing one of them Friday at the benefit concert to introduce it I&039;ll be working closely with Ich for the next couple of weeks"

"Not to close," Ichiro said "I can only tolerate you in spurts"

Takuhed at Ichiro&039;s joke Now, that&039;s the Ao as kids and teasing each other good-naturedly

"Are you happy to be going back on tour, Ich?" Goro asked him

"Yes, but I&039;ve torn emotionally I don&039;t want to leave Shaundra"

"I&039;m sure she wished you only the best," Goro said "She will be okay I&039;ll ask Amaya to keep an eye on her"

"No," everyone said si with A," Yori explained

"Why?" Goro asked, enjoying seeing Yori squirm

"She&039;s a bit jealous of Shaundra," Yori said

Takumijo and Satoshi chuckled

"In ay? They&039;re both woht Why is A for my wife," Ichiro answered

Goro looked from Ichiro to Yori Yori, Lord help hiation In the beginning the two of them were close Yori looked out for the shy Ichiro and acted like a big brother toward him Now, the two of them seemed so distant "Anye&039;ll find soone"

"She will go live with my sisters," Ichiro stated "She is fahed "Have you run that past Shaundra yet?"

"I don&039;t have to run anything by her She is roaned "You are so cute when you take charge, Ich But you&039;re wrong this ti to refuse"

"What makes you think that she will refuse?" Ichiro asked

"One, Shaundra is your equal not someone to boss around, and two, she&039;s not the type to have others taking care of her

I&039;m sure she loves your sisters and Daichi but her home is the farmhouse We can hire someone to stay with her like we did the last tiested "He&039;ll be in town another couple ofat me like that?

"No," Satoshi said "Not Harper We can&039;t leave Shaundra alone with him for two months"

"Why not?" Goro asked "He&039;s her boss and her friend"

"And he buys her underwear," Masaaki answered "We will not be leaving her with Harper Kehoe"

"Okay," Goro agreed "Harper is out We&039;ll stick to the original plan and hire soet Ichiro&039;s brother Daichi to make sure she sticks to her diet I&039; care of her"

Ichiro paled "What? No, out of the question Not Daichi"

"Why not?" Goro asked "He&039;s your older brother"

"That&039;s exactly the reason," Ichiro said

Takumijo chuckled "I don&039;t think you&039;ve noticed, Mr

Niigata, but Shaundra draws men to her like flies to a picnic"

All the reement

"We can&039;t trust other nant," Goro argued "No man ant to flirt with he in that condition"

EveryKenshin looked at him like he was crazy

"Have you seen her boobs?" Yori asked him "They are phenomenal"

"And the behind is stellar," Satoshi replied

"And she has the prettiest eyes," Kenshin said

"And" Masaaki didn&039;t have a chance to couys are so dead if you touch her," Ichiro warned

Goro smiled Now he understood "Okay, no man is to come near her On to the next subject, the charity benefit"

TheAfterward, Ichiro invited everyone to his restaurant for dinner

"Good evening, Mr Yoshida," a pretty, young waitress said to Ichiro when they arrived at his Osaka restaurant

"Good evening, Eri," Ichiro replied "Nice to see you again"

Satoshi watched the young woave him such a sweet smile

"We have a private room available," Eri told Ichiro "Follow me" Eri turned on her heels and walked away

Satoshi noticed a sensual switching of her hips as Ichiro followed her Takumijo elbowed him in the side, smiled, but did not comment Yori thankfully had seen what they saw and didn&039;t comment either

Eri opened the door to the private banquet room and continued to smile at and only speak to Ichiro "I will tell Daichi and the chef that you are here" She paused "Will you need sake?"

That definitely meant that she knew Ichiro well

"No," Ichiro said "I&039;ve given up the stuff"

"Shochu and plenty of it," Taku down on a pillow on the floor

"Shochu and tea," Ichiro told Eri as the others got comfortable on the floor too

"Yes, Mr Yoshida" Eri bowed "I&039;ll bring it in personally"

Ichiro joined them on the floor

"Who is that?" Taku here about six le?" Takumijo asked

"Yes," Ichiro answered "She&039;s twenty-one and just graduated froirl," Yori said "Don&039;t bother Tak

Sirls are not what their cracked up to be"

"Eri is a nice girl," Ichiro replied "She wants to be a chef"

How come Ichiro knew sowoo to college?" Satoshi asked

"I don&039;t know," Ichiro said "Why are you bringing her up?"

"Just curious," Satoshi said Point proven "You seem to know a lot about Eri How come?"

"How come what?" Ichiro asked "People, for so me in conversation She&039;s an eo they couldn&039;t get Ichiro to speak to a fan Noas Mr Talkative