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 him close to

at my little baby, tears dripping down my face as I take in every ounce of

is pressed tight to my side, his arms wrapped around

believe he’s here,” I

he’s so mad,” Roger replies, his

at him, sniffing back my tears, grateful that his strange sense of humor has at least stopped my crying. “You know, Roger,” I

at the baby with an expression somewhere between

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

come up with

me,” I sigh.

is aching,

more minutes where it feels like Roger and the baby and I are the only three people in the world. I almost jump in surprise

“Will you let the nurses clean him up and wrap in him in a blanket? And I’ll

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

just an excited new mom and the birth went beautifully, no complications,

the nurse as she carries the baby across the room to be weighed and checked out by the doctor. But the

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

hands on top of hers and

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 it. “I’m sure it will,” she says with a happy sigh. “Now,

head on Roger’s

to 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’ve been for it and I can really feel it this time – the way the gift runs through

until I feel

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