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.

of him against my arm-his little head curled against my elbow-my heart just breaks to feel him close to me, so

baby, tears dripping down my face as I take in every ounce of him, every tiny finger and toe, his wide and crying mouth with its perfect tiny

to my side, his arms wrapped around me,

believe he’s here,” I whisper in

he’s so mad,” Roger

at my mate and 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,”

an expression somewhere between shock and awe. “I doubt he’d even hear me wasted compliment.” it’d

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

have come up with something that good. He needed you for

got me,” I sigh.

aching, I just feel such

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

tears of joy when I look up at her. “What do you think, Cora?” she asks quietly. “Will you let the nurses clean him up and

baby needs to be checked. And I laugh as the nurse comes close, reaching

nurse says, grinning at me as she takes the baby from my arms. “You’re just an excited new mom and the birth

and checked out by the doctor. But the nurse is right – everything

murmurs, sitting down next to me and holding her hands out, palm up. “I basically bled out after

Ells,” I sigh, placing my hands on top of hers and laughing a little. “I’m sure your next one

at me with wide eyes, and I turn my head to the side, not understanding her reaction. But then she just grins and shakes her head, dismissing

usually asks that?” I murmur in reply, leaning my head

call 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

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