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.

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

my little baby, tears dripping down my face as I take in every ounce of him, every tiny finger and toe, his

tight to my side, his arms wrapped around me, staring down

can’t believe he’s here,” I whisper in complete

he’s so mad,”

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

he’s making a lot of noise, Cora,” Roger murmurs, still staring at the baby with an expression somewhere between shock

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

couldn’t have come up with something

got me,” I sigh. “My whole heart,

exhausted, and my whole body is aching, I just feel

feels like Roger and the baby and I are the only three people in the world. I

look up at her. “What do you think, Cora?” she asks quietly. “Will you let the nurses clean him up

checked. And I laugh as the nurse comes close, reaching for him. “I’m sorry,”

didn’t,” the nurse says, grinning at me as she takes the baby from my arms. “You’re just an excited new mom and the birth went beautifully,

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

and holding her hands out, palm up. “I basically bled out after

hers and laughing a little. “I’m sure your next one will

her reaction. But then she just grins and shakes her head, dismissing it. “I’m sure it will,” she says with a happy sigh.

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

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

until I feel