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.

my elbow-my heart just breaks to feel him close to me, so strange and new and yet so completely

ounce of him, every tiny finger and toe, his wide and

is pressed tight to my side, his arms wrapped around

here,” I whisper

can’t believe he’s so mad,”

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 is, or how much they love

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

I murmur to the baby, cuddling him close and pressing a kiss to his forehead. “Welcome to the world.

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

he’s got me,” I sigh. “My whole heart, forever,

exhausted, and my whole body is aching, I just feel such rich, complete

like Roger and the baby and I are the only three people in the world. I almost jump in surprise when I feel Ella’s hand on my

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 I’ll check

needs to be checked. And I laugh as the nurse comes close, reaching for him. “I’m sorry,” I say, shaking my head. “I didn’t mean to yell at you

baby from my arms. “You’re just an excited new

the nurse as she carries the baby across the room to be weighed and checked out by the doctor. But the nurse is right – everything went well, and the baby looked fine to me. I don’t anticipate

sitting down next to me and holding her hands out, palm up. “I basically bled out after my traumatic pregnancy, and you get

be jealous, Ells,” I sigh, placing my hands on top of hers and

not understanding her reaction. But then she just grins and shakes her head, dismissing

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

the first time Ella has healed me, of course, but this is the most conscious

I