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.

little head curled against my elbow-my heart just breaks to

ounce of him,

my side, his arms wrapped

here,” I whisper in

so mad,” Roger replies, his

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

Cora,” Roger murmurs, still staring at the baby with an expression somewhere between shock and awe. “I doubt he’d even hear me wasted

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

“I couldn’t have come up with

got me,” I sigh. “My

is aching, I just feel such rich,

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

own face is streaked with 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 wrap in him in a blanket? And I’ll check you out, see if I

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

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

out, palm up. “I basically bled

jealous, Ells,” I sigh, placing my hands on top of hers and laughing a little.

understanding her reaction. But then she just grins and shakes her head,

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

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

I feel

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