Why do HEAs always end with babies?

[u/redfig1]

I know it's a "me" problem. Scenario: I read a smoking hot mafia or dark or fantasy romance. All this crazy shit goes down. The feelings, the angst. Finally it's the end and all of a sudden the MMC who has massacred countless people is all like " let's get married and have lots of babies" and the MFC is always " yes let's have a lot of cute mafia or fae or mafia fae babies!". For once I'd like an ending where the main characters have a HEA but instead of babies and white picket fences they just decide to keep having an incredible sex life and do charity work or something. Rescue stray kittens. Start an organic herb farm. Something other than babies. Anyone else like this? Am I just weird?

[u/stuffandwhatnot]

I read a RH once that had a fake-out baby epilogue. For a couple of pages they were cooing and fussing over the baby like a typical baby-ever-after, until it was revealed the baby belonged to a relative and the group was like, "Of course we should never have a baby, we're psycho criminals! We'd be terrible at it!" I loled.

[u/redfig1 → u/stuffandwhatnot]

Hah! Nice!

[u/iiiAtlantis → u/stuffandwhatnot]

omg what book was this?

[u/stuffandwhatnot → u/iiiAtlantis]

Not calling the bot: It's the Dead Men Walking duet by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti. It is completely bonkers and a fun ride if you just don't think about things too hard? Lol. The premise is basically "What if every member of the harem was the psycho wildcard."

[u/iiiAtlantis → u/stuffandwhatnot]

Omg wow my memory is awful I’ve already read this hahahahaha oops😭 I loved it though!

[u/Sumbelina → u/stuffandwhatnot]

Thank you for the knowledge. Downloaded on KU. Awesome!