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.

head curled against my elbow-my heart just breaks to feel him close to me,

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

tight to my side, his arms wrapped

he’s here,” I

he’s so mad,” Roger

into laughter, glancing 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,” I say quietly, “most new parents say something nice about

making a lot of noise, Cora,” Roger murmurs, still staring at the baby with an expression somewhere between shock and awe. “I doubt he’d even hear me wasted compliment.” it’d be

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

couldn’t have come up with something that good. He needed you for

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

whole body is aching, I just feel

are the

Cora?” she asks quietly. “Will you let the nurses clean him up and wrap in him in

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

an excited new mom and the birth went beautifully, no complications, so there’s no

eyes follow 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

me and holding her hands out, palm

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

a little, looking up 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 it. “I’m sure it will,”

that?” I murmur in reply, leaning my head on Roger’s shoulder, starting to feel my

starting 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

until I