Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Cora

“You’ve got this, Cora!” Ella cheers at my side while I squeeze Roger’s hand, panting and shouting as I give what the nurse has told me is one last, final push.

I put everything I have into this final moment, squeezing my eyes shut and pushing as hard as I can, wanting this done – wanting to feel my little baby in my arms

And suddenly the pressure lessens, and my eyes fly open as I gasp And there’s a little baby’s cry ringing out through the room.

“Here!” I gasp, leaning forward fervently, some motherly demand in me needing my little baby now even as I see him in the nurse’s hands. “Give him to me!”

The nurse hesitates, looking towards her colleagues. I moan a little, still reaching, wanting him now

“Do it,” Ella snaps suddenly up from my side. She stands and moves towards the nurse, putting a hang on her shoulder and gesturing towards me. ” He needs his mother – ”

Roger is completely still at my side, his eyes focused totally on the baby, who starts to cry his little heart out.

“Please,” I beg, reaching for him.

“All right,” the nurse says, nodding and bringing him forward. “We’ll clean him up in a minute – ”

And she takes two steps forward, and leans down, and places my little baby in my arms

And I burst immediately into tears.

heart just breaks to feel

take in every ounce of him, every tiny finger and toe, his wide and crying mouth with its perfect

his arms wrapped around me,

here,” I whisper in complete

believe he’s so mad,” Roger replies,

shaking my head at him, sniffing back my tears, grateful that his strange sense of humor has at least stopped my crying. “You know, Roger,” I say quietly, “most new parents say something nice about their kid when they meet him for the first time, like how beautiful he

noise, Cora,” Roger murmurs, still staring at the baby with an expression somewhere between shock and awe.

gorgeous boy,” I murmur to the baby, cuddling him close and pressing a kiss

sighs. “I couldn’t have come up with something that good. He needed you

me,” I sigh. “My whole heart, forever, little

though I’m exhausted, and my whole body is aching, I just feel such

more minutes where it feels like Roger and the baby and I are the only three people

at her. “What do you think, Cora?” she asks quietly. “Will you let the nurses clean him up and wrap in him in a blanket? And

needs to be checked. And I laugh as the nurse comes close, reaching for him. “I’m sorry,” I say, shaking my head.

takes the baby from my arms. “You’re just an excited new mom and the birth went beautifully, no complications, so there’s no harm in wanting to hold him

baby across the room to be weighed and checked out by the doctor. But the nurse is right

down next to me and holding her hands out, palm

top of hers and laughing a little. “I’m sure your next one will be perfectly

understanding her reaction. But

reply, leaning my head on Roger’s shoulder, starting to feel my exhaustion now more than

upon her gift. I feel it when it starts to sweep through me, and I sit up a little with curiosity. This isn’t the first time Ella has healed me, of course, but this is the most conscious I’ve been for it and I can really feel it this time – the way the gift runs through me, seeking out the parts of me that hurt and sweeping through them piece

I feel completely