Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

#Chapter 478 – New Baby

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.

Because the weight of him against my arm-his little head curled against my elbow-my heart just breaks to feel him close to me, so strange and new and yet so completely right.

I take in every ounce of him, every tiny finger and toe, his wide and crying

my side, his arms wrapped around me, staring

believe he’s here,”

so mad,” Roger replies,

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

an expression somewhere between shock and awe. “I

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

“I couldn’t have come up with

I sigh. “My whole

whole body is aching, I just feel such

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

you let the nurses clean him up and wrap in him in a

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

says, grinning at me as she takes the baby from my arms. “You’re just an excited new mom and the birth went

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

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

I sigh, placing my hands on top of hers and laughing a

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, does

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

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 parts of me that hurt and sweeping through them piece by

until I

her hands away and opening her

Ella, it’s still